Longform

A profile of Paul Reubens and his subversive alter ego.

In 1980, four American nuns were murdered in El Salvador. This is the story of how a young American official stationed there singlehandedly found the culprits.

Excerpted from Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War

The inside story of how scientists finally proved that gravitational waves exist.

How one billionaire owner outflanked two others and brought the NFL back to Los Angeles, doubling the value of his franchise.

Mother's Day triggers a wealth of memories and characters, past and present.

The hedge fund manager making a bet that Wall Street can solve the water crisis in the West.

On the profound power of the placebo.

Decades after the body of beauty queen Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, there is still only one suspect: John Feit, the priest who heard her final confession.

Inside Steve Madden’s shoe empire.

The idea was to shoot a Neiman Marcus fur catalog in the Andes mountains, not get stranded on them.

At 76, Atlanta’s Beverly “Guitar” Watkins still lives for the blues.

What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”

“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”

Twenty years ago, Brian Peixoto was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. But is he innocent?

An ex-SEAL turns to “ocean therapy” to cope with chronic pain and PTSD.

How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.

An essay on Beyoncé and her fans.

To understand Cam Newton, you need to go to a small church 45 minutes outside of Atlanta called Holy Zion Center of Deliverance and hear his dad preach.

As an “angry young man,” Ghost World author Daniel Clowes insulted Stan Lee and Art Spiegelman in a graphic novel’s satirical alternate reality. It was born from a nagging self-doubt that, despite the cartoonist’s current recognition and status, lingers.

Australian scientists Pat and Peter Shaw always planned to take their lives, together. After saying goodbye to their daughters last October, they did.

“We take the bus when we can’t afford to do anything but disappear.”

When cops kill civilians, their union is on hand to defend them. In many cases this has come at the expense of the truth.

Before ending up in Rikers, Jeremy Wilson — if that’s his real name — had portrayed himself as a Scottish-born DJ, a Cambridge-trained thespian, a Special Forces officer, a professor at MIT, an Apple executive, a soldier seeking asylum in Canada to escape anti-Semitic attacks in the United States, and an Irish mobster. Among others.