Longform

How much can athletes really make in niche sports? A whole lot more than you might think.

The petty, vindictive, backbiting, lawsuit-laden, career-ruining infighting at everyone’s favorite local NY1 news station.

“It’s basically bankruptcy for profit.”

We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.

Gulfport police killed a Black veteran. His family waits for answers.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

Residents have lived near more than 100 massive petroleum storage tanks for decades, never really knowing if they’re breathing in dangerous chemicals. Now they’re fighting to find out.

My dad was a riddle to me, even more so after he disappeared. For a long time, who he was—and by extension who I was—seemed to be a puzzle I would never solve.

The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

In 1970 South Central, pigeon fancying was serious business. But there’s a deeper story behind why these Black Angelenos are entering their fifth and sixth decade raising Birmingham Roller pigeons.

Last year’s first-ever fatal shark attack jolted Mainers into acknowledging that great whites regularly swim off the state’s shores—and that there’s plenty about them we don’t know.

When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.

Searching for home at a cowboy poetry convention in Elko, Nevada.

How a 15-month-old was found dead in the sea in Norway.

Prison Doctor David Ross was powerless in the role of bedside bystander as he tended to ten hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike. Five years later, he killed himself.

At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.

The city is beating the pandemic. Can it also recover from decades of division and neglect?

How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams.

You walk around carrying this invisible weight — this pressure on your whole spirit—because the worlds you’re trying to fit into are rejecting you in so many ways. And you think it’s your fault.

Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt. Twice.

From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, the true impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Natives is impossible to calculate.

Sarah Green escaped her mother’s cult 22 years ago. She still thinks about those she left behind.

In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?