Longform

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

An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.

How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

How a supposedly safe party drug turned lethal.

How a substandard abortion provider stays in business.

Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.

A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.

With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.

“I think you are asking me, in the most tactful way possible, about my own ­aggression and malice. What can I do but plead guilty? I don’t know ­whether journalists are more aggressive and malicious than people in other professions. We are certainly not a ‘helping profession.’ If we help anyone, it is ourselves, to what our subjects don’t realize they are letting us take. I am hardly the first writer to have noticed the not-niceness of journalists. Tocqueville wrote about the despicableness of American journalists in Democracy in America. In Henry James’s satiric novel The Reverberator, a wonderful rascally journalist named George M. Flack appears. I am only one of many contributors to this critique. I am also not the only journalist contributor. Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, for instance, have written on the subject. Of course, being aware of your rascality doesn’t excuse it.”

How a 40-year-old IT consultant became nod, one of Silk Road’s highest volume heroin dealers, who turned informant and then fugitive.

How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.

Tom Waits interviewed at 38.

After being extinct for 70 million years, the coelacanth came back to life.

Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.

The rise of an expensive, experimental stem-cell treatment in China and the medical tourism it attracts.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

At one time, a whole generation of New York Times reporters wished they could write like McCandlish Phillips. Then he left them all for God.

The improbable life and career of the sculptor-turned-musician.

An oral history of Swingers.

Meggett was an All-Pro running back for the New York Giants. He was also a serial rapist.