Longform

When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.

COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.

Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, a notorious Canadian white-collar criminal.

Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to “lone defender of the billionaires.”

The mystery behind who currently operates The Drudge Report.

How breakfast got served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.

On the life and legacy of one of soccer’s legends, who died Wednesday.

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

Henry Orenstein survived three years in concentration camps before creating Transformers and poker cameras.

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry. Instead, everyone played each other.

How a 16-year-old from suburban Connecticut became the most famous teen in America.

Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.

A profile of the Daily Show host.

No house is private. It may be purchased, and thus legally private property, but it doesn’t stand alone. Through its extending wires, pipes, inputs and outputs, the house (with few off-grid exceptions) is tied up in the cyborg systems of the city and the supply chains and logistical inputs that extend around the globe.

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

An interview with rapper Drakeo the Ruler after he was released from prison, having previously faced the possibility of 25 to life despite being previously acquitted of murder charges related to a 2016 killing.

A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.

As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.