He Killed for His Cartel. Then He Exposed It.
They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."
The Terror Queue
The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.
The Art of Dying
“I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?”
'He Was Just Starting'
On the life and legacy of Canadian artist Matthew Wong.
In Which We're Up All Night
An essay on insomnia.
This Controversial Former Death Row Doctor Built an Empire From Treating Georgia Inmates
When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.
The Ballad of Richard Jewell
How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
Click Here to Kill
The dark world of online murder markets.
Forgive Us Our Debts
Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.
The Age of Instagram Face
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "My Mother, An Ouroboros"
A mother and son navigate hope and setbacks.
The Gospel of Wealth According to Marc Benioff
The Salesforce founder has donated a fortune to right capitalism’s wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can’t we just be grateful?
Loyalty Over Everything
He sawed out the bottom. Nailed the crate to the telephone pole out in front of the house. New hoop. ... I’d be out there shooting until 10 at night. That’s when I started getting really good. The pole was round so you couldn’t bank the ball in. And you weren’t getting a friendly bounce on a square rim. You had to hit it dead-on, wet.
Guns and Marriage
An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.
Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for Wired. His new book is Sandworm.
“I kind of knew I was never going to get access to Sandworm, which is the title of the book - so it was all about drawing a picture around this invisible monster.”
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The Influencer and the Hit Man
How a war over a domain name ended in a bloody shootout.
Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.
Was she the reason he was alive today?
This Maine Fish House is an Icon. But of What, Exactly?
The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.
The Day that Changed Everything
Can one agonizing defeat destroy a life?
At War with the Truth
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it.
The Man Who Never Was
Todd Marinovich was engineered from birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time. He ended up doing heroin in the locker room. A 2010 National Magazine Award winner, reprinted on Longform.
Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul
After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.
The Long-Forgotten Vigilante Murders of the San Luis Valley
How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.
How Roadkill Became an Environmental Disaster
Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.
The Ladder Up
A restless history of Washington Heights.
