Longform

Why humans love to watch other creatures.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

The disturbing double life of a popular English teacher.

How an anti-government militia grew on a U.S. Army base.

The story of Max Factor, a Polish immigrant who revoltuionized Hollywood cosmetics starting in the 1920s, and his “Beauty Calibrator” machine.

On America’s combat canines and their handlers.

Tensions eat away at a relationship between a musician and his girlfriend.

Growing up with Charlie Brown.

A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.

“Places like the New York Times, Le Monde and the Washington Post are not given to elevating editors—of any gender—who would accept anything other than the highest of standards. As in tough, demanding, challenging. But there’s no doubt that many find this off-putting and threatening from a certain kind of woman. Like me.”

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

How a Japanese company took over the American living room.

Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students usually don’t. How one school is trying to intervene.

“Formal bullfighting is an art, a tragedy, and a business. To what extent it is an art depends on the bulls and the men who are hired to kill them, but it is always a tragedy and it is always a business.”

How the famed war photographer covered D-Day.

The first profile of the disgraced journalist.

A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.

Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.

An oral history.

The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry.

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.