Longform

A false confession to bad cops put a man in prison for rape and murder. But even conclusive DNA evidence hasn’t gotten him out.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

A women’s shelter in Afghanistan protects its inhabitants from their own families.

A Kiwi entrepreneur is leading a revolution in recreational drugs: he’s trying to make them safe.

USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.

The despair behind the puzzle of what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

“What I had going for me was teen rage, contempt impervious to offers of compromise; the power of the mask capable of turning ice to marshmallow, and all the time in the world, all the ability to sustain it without surrendering.”

Brutality persists at the famous prison.

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.

Once a “folk hero,” Carson has become controversial. And his social conservative stances puzzle his former colleagues.

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

The British and Irish have coined some fabulous terms to describe nature and landscrape. “Doofers” is the Scots’ term for horse-shit; “clinkerbell” means icicle in Hampshire.

Guatemala discovers, in bat-guano spotted documents, the truth about its violent past.

Identical twins in Pennsylvania have the same genes, the same upbringing, similar adult lives. And yet one crucial difference may have made one of them sick.

A teenaged prisoner is left unprotected by America’s laws against prison rape.

Even for a high-powered “A-Type,” living on forged documentation is an endurance test.

Searching for sanctuary with American war deserters.

Behind a $1,000 sundae were two very, very ill-suited business partners.

The flawed science that helped convict a Tennessee man of murder.

A lake house; complex family mysteries and horrors.

"From the backseat, I pull the hammer. I’m prepared to use it. I considered a hatchet, but it’s my brother."

A segregated housing development washed away in a flood can still explain why Portland, Oregon, is such a “white” city.