Longform

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

An $140 million blockbuster written and funded by a billionaire, ‘Empires of the Deep’ was supposed to be China’s ‘Avatar,’ featuring mermaids, Greek warriors, pirates, sea monsters, and an even international stars.

Six years after being filmed, the movie has never seen the light of day.

The author takes a trip to HempCon with her anxious, insomniac, ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother.

A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.

An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Hervé Falciani, a computer engineer working at HSBC, stole the bank’s list of secret accounts. But was he out to expose tax cheats or get rich himself? Perhaps both.

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. It’s racist.

Sarma Melngailis owned a booming vegan restaurant beloved by celebrities. But after systematically draining the company bank account, she and her husband skipped town. Last week, after nearly a year on the lam, they were arrested in a Fairfield Inn & Suites in Tennessee. The cops found them after they ordered Domino’s.

Thomas Pogge is a Yale professor and one of the world’s most prominent ethicists. He also stands accused of sexually harassing his female students.

Meet Martha Beck.

How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.

A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

Shot and killed just shy of his 18th birthday, Deonte Hoard was one of 489 homicide victims in Chicago last year. How this happened—and how it keeps happening—is both one person’s story and the story of how a community has been forced to adjust to murder as an everyday fact of life.

Inside Friends of Abe, one of Hollywood’s most influential (and most discreet) political organizations.

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

He is 69. He is no longer a virtuoso politician. He has been marginalized within his wife’s campaign. Nobody knows what what his role will be if she wins, but everyone agrees that he’s desperate to find out.

A woman picks up her father's ashes at a funeral home.

A profile of Andy Kaufman.

A family loses everything in the Fort McMurray wildfire.

A man’s search for his kidnapped children in India and Nepal.

How artist Petr Pavlensky uses his body and the Russian legal system as canvases.

Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.

Did Afghan forces target the M.S.F. hospital?