Longform

How the refugee crisis has made a lot of people very, very rich.

“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

You never watched Shazaam.

An investigation into prophetic dreams.

How the 1983 assassination of his father, the president of American University of Beirut, shaped the Golden State Warriors basketball coach.

When his father was murdered, Wasil Ahmad vowed revenge. He was 8 years old.

On chemo.

All of the books about all of the David Bowies:

There are more and more books like this these days: rock histories and encyclopedias, stuffed with information, compendiums of every last detail from this or that year, era, genre, artist – time pinned down, with absolutely no anxiety of influence. And while it would be churlish to deny there is often a huge amount of valuable stuff in them, I do think we need to question how seriously we want to take certain lives and kinds of art – and how we take them seriously without self-referencing the life out of them, without deadening the very things that constitute their once bright, now frazzled eros and ethos.

One frosty October morning in 1991, a newborn baby boy is found inside a plastic bag in an Oslo graveyard. This is his story, in nine parts.

John Georgelas was a military brat and drug enthusiast from Texas. Now he’s a prominent figure within the Islamic State.

When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.

He was a Baptist who became a Muslim, a Marine who became a bank robber, a criminal who became an informant, and a student who became an imam. But was Marcus Robertson connected to the deadliest mass shooting in American history?

A small town upstate, a Queens ambulance veteran, and a murder

As business declines amidst an opioid epidemic in America, Purdue Pharma’s owners the Sackler family are pursuing a new strategy: putting OxyContin in medicine cabinets around the world.

Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.

Henry Heimlich saved untold choking victimes when he invented his maneuver in 1974. Since then, he’s searched in vain for another miracle treatment—pushing ethical boundaries along the way. Now at the end of his career, Heimlich has hired an investigator to find an anonymous critic working full-time to destroy his legacy.

How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

A winding search for love through drink, power, and fear.

A profile of the NBA sideline reporter as he battled cancer.

In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran.

Pro boxing, famous for larger-than-life characters, now has one invented or the Instagram age.