Woo Cho Bang Bang
The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.
The Big Lobotomy
How the Gingrich-era brain drain crippled the government and led to last year’s shutdown.
Q&A With Larry Lessig On Why You Should Have Faith In Silicon Valley
The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.
The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker
The formative years of the Republican star.
How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower
Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.
They Came. They Sawed.
In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic. His latest cover story is "The Case for Reparations."
"The writer hopes for change, but writers can't assume that their work is going to cause change."
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How To Catch A Chess Cheater
A profile of Ken Regan, a computer scientist, chess master, and world champion at detecting cheaters in chess.
Mother's Mind
A series on maternal mental illness.
Geoff Dyer: The Art of Nonfiction No. 6
“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”
From the Longform archive: George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Haruki Murakami and 25 more writers on writing.
Heroes for Sale
A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.
The Secret to Getting Top-Secret Secrets
A profile of reporter Jason Leopold, who has reinvented himself after journalistic scandal by becoming what he calls a “FOIA terrorist.”
Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?
A profile of the photographer, who has been accused by several models of sexual abuse.
Where a Pyramid Scheme Seems Very Far Away
Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.
The Disruption Machine
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
"There Is Going to Be a Destruction ... the Obliteration of a Person"
A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.
A Portrait of Europe’s White Working Class
What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Yesterday"
Kids consider changing their personalities and relationships.
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Can General Linder’s Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?
How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
The Day We Set the Colorado River Free
A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.
Prisoner of Denver
“The case of Lisl Auman, who first wrote me from prison three years ago, is so rotten and wrong and shameful that I feel dirty just for knowing about it, and so should you.”
Should Two Children Be Imprisoned For Plotting To Kill Their Classmates?
How two boys, 10 and 11, were sentenced to years in a detention facility for a crime they didn’t get a chance to commit.
Life, After
Living without your left arm.
Partial Recall
Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?
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