Longform

Love, loss, and life at 93.

The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.

Her life in South Korea seemed perfect: new friends, a burgeoning career, reality-TV fame. But she was about to become notorious—disappearing without a trace, only to reappear pledging allegiance to North Korea. What happened to Lim Ji-hyun?

Baby Olivia weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. Her doctors faced a stressful paradox: giving her the healing power of a parent’s touch, while keeping the virus out.

When an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America discovers a seemingly worthless plot of land she has inherited is worth millions, everything in her life changes—and the walls begin to close in.

Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.

On the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century.

Mike McCaskill spent years scouring the stock market and betting on long shots. Then he found the opportunity that changed his life—and helped spark the mother of all short squeezes.

Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.

The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.

On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.

When a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, some Hillsong congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame—and the double standards that often came with it.

How will we remember Covid-19?

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

Serial arson in rural Virginia: a love story.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?

As the New York head of a celebrity-favorite megachurch, Carl Lentz achieved stardom. But when a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame.

Apex predators, feeding on pests and pets, teem in suburban Dallas and other American cities.

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

Seth Abramson’s viral meta-journalism unreality.

Inside Give Kids the World Village, where the ice cream is unlimited, nightly tuck-ins from six-foot bunny rabbits are complimentary, and Santa Claus visits every Thursday.

An interview with Gabriela López, the head of the San Francisco Board of Education.