Longform

How OxyContin permeated one small town.

On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”

A legal battle over stolen computer monitors ends one man’s career and the lives of three others.

In the days following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, more than 100 cities experienced significant civil disturbance. In New York, everyone expected riots. What happened next.

On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

A profile of the country music legend.

The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States.

A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”

Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.

Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?

The story of the manhunt.

How social psychologist Diederik Stapel committed and rationalized an audacious academic fraud, and what his lies reveal about the culture of scientific research.

“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”

“I love my mother a not-normal amount.”

Marketing research,the pre-Facebook history of ‘likeability,’ and why there will never be a ‘dislike’ button.

A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.

Why awareness isn’t saving lives.

When a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur pulled over to answer a text message he was carjacked by Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This is what happened that night and how he escaped.

Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.

On dissident filmmakers in Syria.