Longform

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969.

Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.

What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.

What sex workers think about legalizing sex work.

The genetics of schizophrenia.

On a November morning, Olympic rower and financial advisor Harold Backer left for a bike ride and never returned. His disappearance remained a mystery – until letters began arriving at the homes of his investors.

Sallie Belling was an inspirational figure in her community for having overcome a childhood of abuse, drugs, and prostitution — a childhood her sister Rachel says is pure fiction.

For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Almost nobody on Earth understands how they do it. And soon, the few people who do will be gone.

Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.

Philip Johnson was a promising musical prodigy. Then he stole a teacher’s prized Stradivarius.

A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

Park Service and Forest Service employees face sexual harassment and assault in America’s wild places.

Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.

A contemporary fairy tale of transformations and time.

A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.

Jay Miscovich spent his life wanting to hunt for treasure. In 2010, after just a few months of trying, he found half a billion dollars worth of emeralds at the bottom of the Atlantic. A few years later he killed himself.

A mother’s quest to find a diagnosis for her daughter’s mysterious condition.

“Twenty-five years ago, I used to live in fear of Trevor Latham kicking my ass nearly every day. I grew up to be a writer. He grew up to run one of the toughest biker gangs in America. And then I tracked him down.”

How Kinfolk makes money while driving people crazy.

A jailhouse interview.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

A helicopter pilot crash-lands in the Arctic.

Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.