Longform

A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.

On sugar cane production.

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.

“If the pandemic so terrified us that billions of us retreated into panicked cocoons for months, what can explain or justify our blindness and indifference towards the ten million lives ended each year by the repeated inhalation of smog?”

Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.

All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions.

The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.

A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy.

Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and was gunned down in the street. How running fails Black America.

A profile of the actor.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.

An essay on audiobooks.

For a decade, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence had surfed the wave of populist-right politics like few other people in America. Then came Jan. 6.

The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

Sunken by grief, Alenka Artnik found herself alone on a bridge, contemplating suicide. Ten years later, she is the world’s greatest female freediver and getting stronger with each record-breaking plunge. How one woman emerged from mental health struggles to push the limits of the human body.

Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life—and triumphed—in the trial of the Panther 21.

A profile.

In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband’s murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers.