Longform

An account of Yukon Quest, Alaska’s grueling, thousand-mile dog sled race.

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

A profile of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

A son tries to make sense of his mother’s end.

On reading and writing fan fiction.

A profile of Hugo Chávez.

A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”

The people behind the search for the “God particle.”

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

The story of a whale attack.

The science of sleeplessness.

A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On the Israeli national baseball team.

The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.

A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.

A profile of the late-night host.

The Branch Davidians today, 20 years after the deadly standoff.

A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.

How the borough bounced back.

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.