Longform

The story of the loneliest whale in the world.

Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

Long considered a punchline, vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves.

Can casting away from established society to inhabit sea-based colonies save us from the problems of modern life—or are we bound to repeat our mistakes?

The fast rise and even faster fall of a trader who bet big with borrowed money.

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.

What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America’s first responders?

On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.

How a Texas university eagerly accepted a top football player as a transfer even though he had just been kicked off another school’s team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student.

As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.

Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

Understanding Joe Biden by way of his favorite historian.

The origin story of a now-ubiquitous celebration.

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.

How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?

When I say I have a crush on you, what I’m saying is that I’m in love with the distance between us. I’m not in love with you: I don’t even know you. I’m in love with the escape that fantasizing about you promises. Poisoned, stung, bitten and bridled. The promise of being ground down until I disappear.

Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Love, loss, and growing up in the Utah desert

Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.