Longform

On codeine syrup and Sprite

A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.

With the biggest bout of his career looming, Andre Ward — who some consider the world’s best boxer — opens up about his family and his faith.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

The Piano Man of Yarmouk fled the ruins of Damascus to a life of criss-crossing Germany playing songs about his old neighborhood to huge crowds. Because of refugee law, he is paid nothing.

“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”

A beaten man tries to come back from purgatory.

He set a world record in the 100-yard dash as a teenager. He was mentored by Muhammad Ali and a man who orchestrated the largest bank embezzlement in U.S. history. He was homeless for part of his adult life before making a comeback at age 34. Throughout it all, Houston McTear was really, really fast.

Paramedics pick up the pieces on the Texas-Mexico border.

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.

Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.

Centuries later, the Flemish master’s works are still open to interpretation.

Behind the scenes with Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, and a 22-year-old film student named John Singleton.

On NFL siblings Michael and Martellus Bennett, who “tend to perplex people.”

Murky origins. Feuding chefs. How the lobster roll went national.

Dead bodies and small town sexual identity.

Forgiveness and the lives of two young men caught in Stockton street gangs.

Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter.

A lifelong Jehovah’s Witness moves to China to proselytize.

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

How a retired Swiss banker ended up behind bars in Thailand for uncovering a scheme that included the Malaysian prime minister and billions of in laundered money that was spent on everything from parties with Paris Hilton to backing for The Wolf of Wall Street.

Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.

“You try to learn as much about the people as you can. I try never to give psychohistory. There is no one truth, but there are an awful lot of objective facts. The more facts you get, the more facts you collect, the closer you come to whatever truth there is. The base of biography has to be facts.”