Longform

Secrets, dangers, and murder in a German police state.

The rewards and pitfalls of selling haunted objects.

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

How a bid to unseat Senator Thad Cochran led to an illegal photo in a nursing home, a flurry of arrests, and the death of the man who brought the Tea Party to Mississippi.

On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.

The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.

Tracking the humble hummingbird down to Belize.

A profile of Moktar Belmoktar, Al-Qaida’s “most difficult employee,” who was responsible for a major attack on an Algerian BP plant and, according to U.S. and Libyan forces, was killed in an air strike on Sunday.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?

The actress Tilda Swinton found herself dissatisfied with the schools available for her twins. So she founded her own.

On the enduring appeal, both amateur and academic, of man vs. dinosaur.

Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.

The comic failings of a Kickstarter project that promised a “Netflix for vinyl.”

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

An excerpt from the best-selling true crime book of all time.

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

An oral history with former employees Sasha Frere-Jones, Alysia Abbott, Piotr Orlov, and Chris Wilcha.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.