Longform

On spectacular saintliness, holy anorexia, and female hysteria.

A baby’s brain needs love to develop.

Antibiotics made modern farming possible. But as “societal drugs,” their use by any individual affects us all.

“The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him ‘like a football player, head down,’ is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a ‘complete fabrication.’”

When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.

Citizens of Shishmaref, Alaska are watching their beaches disappear and their homes fall into the sea. Is it too late to relocate?

A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

On the labor conditions behind branches of NYU, the Louvre, and the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.

Ozel Clifford Brazil was a respected clergyman who helped thousands of African-American teens go to college. He broke the law to do it.

How the China National Tobacco Corp., which manufactures 2.5 trillion cigarettes per year, came to make more money than Apple.

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.

On Cheryl Strayed and why Wild became a hit.

Life inside a pair of small-town boarding houses.

Christopher Clayton Hutton hatched a plan to deliver Monopoly boards to British prisoners of war. The games were advertised as a diversion, but really they offered a way out.

Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.

Kylee Kimbrough lost her childhood, lost her sobriety, lost her living situation, and finally even lost her son. Then she found the drums.

Talking with the most read—and most controversial—sex columnnist today.

The effects of legalized prostitution in Germany.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

An attempt to destigmatize failed adoptions.

An Islamic State senior commander reveals the terror group’s origins.

“Traffic was never the problem. Everything else was.”