Longform

The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.

The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

His brother confessed to gunning down 17 people in Parkland. But he’s the only family Zach Cruz has left.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

The life of Robert Earl Hughes, who at more than 1,000 lbs. was named largest man on earth by the Guinness Book of World Records.

From Driving Miss Daisy to Green Book.

Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service.

The Booker Prize-winning novelist on fantasy, reality, and a religious crisis that has never ended.

Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia.

Activities include: getting his own stem cells injected into his body every six months, taking 100 supplements a day, following a strict diet, bathing in infrared light, hanging out in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and wearing yellow-lensed glasses every time he gets on an airplane.

Brothers comes to terms with guilt during an apocalypse.

Millions of American workers sign away legal rights without knowing what they’re in for: Arbitration Hell.

A gym entrepreneur’s side business in marijuana spins out of control.

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

In 1802, horse rustler George Washington Loomis rode into Oneida County and built a mansion adjacent to an impenetrable swamp perfect for storing thieved goods. It was the beginning of the saga of the largest organized crime family in 19th century America.

In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.

The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

There was a woman of at least 90 years and a Hasidic guy in a tall hat, which was too bad for whoever sat behind him. There were models, full nuclear families, and even a solitary frat bro. St. Vincent brings people together.

I went through puberty at age 2.

An interview with James Baldwin on race in America.

On a Presidential paper trail.

On the moral responsibility to break unjust laws.

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”