Longform

Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.

Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.

The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.

In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.

“Let me state, in all frankness, that I have never harbored personal doubts or a lack of confidence. That may be good or it may be bad. But if you see your actions as objectively correct, then not having doubts is good. I must admit that pride may have influenced my attitudes from time to time. But once I came to a conclusion as to what was right, I had great personal confidence in those ideas.”

How the woman who brought Westboro Baptist to Twitter came to question the church’s beliefs.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

Robots arrive on earth; a politician's grotesque fate.

With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected…one of the most violent killers in U.S. history.

A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.

The doctor who worked on both Kennedy and Oswald tells his story.

A cook fights for his sight while reopening his famous restaurant.

An investigation into the abuse and neglect of adults with disabilities in Illinois.

Inside the real lives of people who came early to intentionally provoking, confusing, and generally screwing with strangers online.

The Medallion Fund, a computer-driven hedge fund open to only 300 people, has produced about $55 billion in profit over the last 28 years. Almost nobody knows how they have done it.

Travels through post-election America.

He appeared out of nowhere. No name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. And he couldn’t be found.

How a Madrid workshop is perfecting the art of copying imperiled art, from Egyptian tombs to Renaissance paintings.

Ruth Thalí became an overnight sensation on a game show. Then she disappeared.

On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.

The right to choose in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Inside the world of M&A consulting.

How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

The White House after Election Day.