Longform

A daughter’s attempt to solve the riddle of her mom.

During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

How Georgia halted its drug epidemic, but not its addicts–and what the U.S. might learn from their efforts.

Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.

The story behind the spectacle.

An investigation into shootings by U.S. Border Agents that have killed six Mexicans on Mexican soil over the past five years.

He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before they got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.

How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.

Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.

How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.

An early profile of Justin Beiber.

An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.

On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.

Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.

A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?

Horst von Wächter confronts - and rationalizes - a difficult family legacy.

The writer, entering her thirties single and adrift, heads to San Francisco to spend time with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore and attend a gangbang “where all the men were dressed as panda bears.”

Inside the White House debate over Syria.

In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.

A profile of the almost-president.

How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.