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A respected anti-gang crusader shoots and paralyzes another man.

Jeffrey Holliman was deep in debt and out of options. So he took to the woods outside his small East Texas town. Then he started taking from his neighbors.

The Russian president has crushed all dissent, but he’s more vulnerable than ever.

An illustrated codex, hand-composed in an unknown writing system.

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

“‘When I heard the facts,” says Matt Kull, one of DiPaolo’s former climbing partners, “I thought, That’s what Dave is capable of.’”

An inteview with the Saturday Night Live producer.

Previously: The Longform Guide to SNL.

After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

A murder involving the late actor leaves unanswered questions.

“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”

After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.

On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.

Orlando’s suburbs become an accidental testing ground.

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

On hit-and-run deaths, and in particular, that of Tiara Nichelle Jackson on the Beltway.

An extended conversation on the problem of whether to “drop out or take over” conducted on Alan Watts’ houseboat, the S.S. Vallejo.

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

A love story.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.