Longform

On Vladimir Nabokov.

Hustling and sexual identity in Lagos.

In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?

A profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

Inside the Epoch Times: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong.

On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.

Inside the bizarre, secret meeting between Malcolm X and the Ku Klux Klan.

Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.

The perils of voting in the modern age.

How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.

My main purpose in this address is simply to convince you that this desire is one of the great permanent mainsprings of human action... Unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire is going to be one of the chief motives of your life, from the first day on which you enter your profession until the day when you are too old to care.

A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.

Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.

“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

Two Southern neighbors form a layered bond.

Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.

Zacharias Holmes grew up idolizing the anarchy of ‘Jackass.’ Then he took his idols’ vision of chaos to a whole other level. This is the story of Zackass, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America.

A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.