Longform

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

Adventures as a mortuary assistant.

On faith and football.

An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.

A former teacher on what students lose when elementary schools skimp on science.

Eleven years ago, three-year-old Audrey Santo fell into a pool. She nearly drowned. Much of her brain died. She cannot speak, can only barely move. And every Wednesday, pilgrims show up at her family’s house, ready for a miracle.

On new art boom and one of its most powerful players, David Zwirner.

The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.

The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.

After circulating Lolita in secret amongst a small circle of New Yorker editors and publishers, Vladamir Nabokov finally placed it at Olympia Press. Three weeks before publication, a slumping and broke Dorothy Parker appeared in The New Yorker with a story entitled “Lolita” about a teenage bride, her jealous mother, and a much older man.

How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?

Investigating an astrophysicist’s sudden death at an isolated resesarch base in Antarctica.

Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.

On using data to hire and fire.

Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

A technical explanation of the real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities.

How a comedy writer making $300,000 a year ended up homeless.

How our memories become contaminated by inaccuracies.

On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.

The inside story of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.

A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.

The long road to Google’s self-driving car.

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.