Longform

A trip to Batumi, Georgia.

A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.

The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.

Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.

How John, a father of 14, lost Christmas.

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.

A hallucinatory, grotesque family Christmas.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

A U.S.-backed militia that kills children may be America’s exit strategy from its longest war.

When it comes to data from India’s 500 million daily internet users, everything is for sale.

Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient.

They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.

The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.

The circus is gone. The presidency is ending. The mystery endures.

A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors. Six months later, they still share a property line.

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.