Longform

A modern-day treasure hunt.

On LeBron James’s photographic memory.

After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.

Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.

People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado River. In 1938, two female scientists set out to prove them wrong.

In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.

Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

The Wing is a private members’ space for women that claims to be an ‘accelerator’ for feminist revolution in the US – and now it’s coming to the UK. But how progressive is it really?

When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

The patient lasted just minutes after being taken off life support. By then it was too late.

A homeless teen stumbles upon a strange house party.

I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.

When a down-and-out doctor finds his rundown mansion is haunted, he pulls the quintessentially American move: opening the house to the public for a fee. Everything goes wrong from there

“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”

A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.

“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”

“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”

How demons destroyed a Florida school.

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?

The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.

Inside the Hong Kong protests.