Longform

A eulogy for the journalist.

“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”

Among the Sasquatch-searchers.

High school debate and the demise of public speech.

Inside the world of high-priced online reputation management.

“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”

An interview with the artchitects responsible for Stuttgart’s train station, Hamburg’s concert house and Berlin’s airport, three projects “currently competing to be seen as the country’s most disastrous.”

On Japanese writer Gengoroh Tagame, who creates gay manga work “in the artistic tradition of Pasolini, de Sade, Yukio Mishima and Lolita.”

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

The battle over safety at chemical plants amidst the death of a worker.

The thin, resentful line between comic and audience.

How an informant helped authorities nab a notorious anti-abortion activist.

A year with a high school support group for boys who have lost a parent.

The intertwined lives of an Oregon rancher and a Indiana fraudster.

How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.

On an artist who’s spent nearly 50 years bending the rules of space and light, and his life’s work, an extinct volcano in Arizona where he has been developing a network of tunnels and underground rooms since 1974.

Inside an animal-lover civil war.

The bizarre battle over the Call of Duty video game franchise.

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."

Tracking the circuitous fall of a Chinese political star.