Longform

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

A minute-by-minute account of what it takes to run a restaurant.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

In 1948, a man was found on a beach in South Australia. The circumstances of his death and his identity were rich with mystery. When an amateur sleuth became obsessed, he could not imagine where the clues would lead him.

A girl kidnaps a mysterious figure.

The story of Ota Benga, captured in the Congo, displayed at the World’s Fair, and brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

Inside a school that trains students in an ancient rite: the taking of ayahuasca.

A 42-year-old man with small hands and a dream.

The life and death of an Elvis obsessive.

The story behind a wad of cotton and a bit of string.

How Sepp Blatter controlled soccer.

A takedown of the Last of the Mohicans author.

By the 1990s, the timeline of most superhero comics dipped back nearly 30 years, and beloved characters were saddled with impenetrable backstories and middle-age. Ultimate Marvel made Spider Man, X-Men, and the rest teens in the present day, rejuvenating the industry and setting the stage for Marvel’s string of hit films.

The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”

On the mysteries of the man behind Alice in Wonderland.

“If you’re a glass is half-full kind of person, you’d say they’re repurposing the abandoned coal mine” and using it to create jobs, says Wright. “And if you're a glass is half-empty kind of person, you'd say it's pretty unconscionable that you’re putting people in cages at gunpoint and putting them in toxic waste sites.”

Faulkner, a small writing shed, and Salida, Colorado: a profile of novelist Kent Haruf.

The very early life of Joe Biden.

A roundtable on sexism in Hollywood and comedy.