Longform

The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.

The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found – and who gets to keep it.

A profile of the boxer Floyd Patterson, after a painful loss to Sonny Liston.

“Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There’s a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.”

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

How Javaris Crittenton went from basketball phenom to standing trial on a murder charge.

How the Ebola virus works.

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

A profile of Novak Djokovic.

In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”

In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes, it actually succeeds.

The survivors of a mass shooting, 20 years later.

A flight attendant's love affair.

Tom Monaghan started Domino’s. Mike Ilitch started Little Caesers. Both became billionaires, both live in Detroit, both are now over 75. They’ve made very different decisions about how to spend their fortunes.

On January 18, 1990, Mayor Marion Barry was caught smoking crack at D.C.’s Vista Hotel. The author was one of the first reporters on the scene. He interviewed guests, staff, anyone he could find. Then he got a room, called his regular strawbery, and got high himself.

How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.

A family struggles as a 42-year-old husband, father and son becomes increasingly isolated.

The story of a new pancreas.

Severely depressed snow leopards, obsessive-compulsive brown bears, phobic zebras and the inner lives of other captive creatures.

The memories of rock stars’ ex-lovers.

Three years after profiling him, the author checks in with the Bieber experiment.

The life and times of James McClintock, the man behind the famed H.L. Hunley who also may or may not have faked his own death.

A trip to Antarctica.

How the Chilean miners survived.