The Target
A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Lessons of Atmeh
The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.
The Quirky Allure of 'Twin Peaks'
A digressive consideration of the popular new show.
The Day The Mountain Fell
The reverberations of an avalanche.
The Hidden Sources That Brought Down Nixon in Watergate
Woodward and Bernstein’s other anonymous sources.
Once a Star, a Cricketer Is Now an Exile
A Jamaican cricket legend bowls in Brooklyn.
Don Van Natta Jr., a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, writes for ESPN and is the author of several books, including Wonder Girl.
"The nature of the kind of work I do as an investigative reporter, every story you do is going to get attacked and the tires are going to get kicked. It’s going to get scrutinized down to every phrase and down to every letter. You have to have multiple sources for key facts on this type of story. We set out to get that and we got it."
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The Best Monster
A hardcore night of Dungeons & Dragons with artist Zak Smith and his coterie of porn star players.
The Empire of Edge
How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.
Dark Alliance
A three-part investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s CIA-backed Contra rebels, and California’s crack epidemic in the 1980s.
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Part One
Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in the early 1980s to help finance war – and a plague was born.
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Part Two
How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and an ambitious teenager created the cocaine pipeline.
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Part Three
The impact of the crack epidemic.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.
The Price of Black Ambition
“I am having a moment, but I only want more. I need more. I cannot merely be good enough because I am chased by the pernicious whispers that I might only be ‘good enough for a black woman.’”
Drones and Everything After
What happens when humans get superpowers.
George Clooney, South Sudan and How the World's Newest Nation Imploded
How celebrity-led humanitarian aid exacerbated a crisis.
The Plane That Fell From the Sky
The story of TWA Flight 841.
Hear Buzz Bissinger discuss this story, a Pultizer finalist now available online for the first time, on the Longform Podcast.
The Kitchen Network
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.
This Week's Most Popular Articles in the Longform App
A teenager murdered by her best friends, a notorious cold case suddenly heats up and Diana Athill, 96, faces the end — the most-read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
Gary Barnett, Controversial Master of New York City Luxury Real Estate
The developer responsible for the tallest residential building in New York—the penthouse just sold for $90 million—lives in a two-story house in Queens.
The Man Who Would Be Prince
A profile of Prince as Diamonds and Pearls was released, based mostly off a brief phone call, all the access he’ll allow.
The Secret Life of Max Stern
The Nazis stole his family’s paintings, but Max Stern escaped and became one of Canada’s leading art dealers. Now, 20 after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution.
The Good Story
A novelist and a psychotherapist discuss truth, fiction and the stories we tell ourselves.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Peripheral"
Gamers, celebrities, military veterans, and publicists populate a capitalist future.
This Is My Beloved Son
The fall of Richard Roberts, anointed son and successor of televangelist Oral Roberts, who was fired as president of Oral Roberts University and evicted from the home he’d lived in for nearly 50 years.
Pictures from an Institution
On Leon Botstein and the future of Bard College, which he has run for four decades.
Battered, Bereaved and Behind Bars
Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child. So why was she sent to prison for 45 years?
