How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

For years, a tactical police unit in Mount Vernon, New York, reigned with impunity—protecting drug dealers, planting evidence, brutalizing citizens. Then one of its own started covertly documenting the abuse.

Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

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.

How the USPS works.

A portrait of Harlem.

An interview with the author.

On parenting during a pandemic.

Inside the National Quarantine Center, there Is no fear of Coronavirus.

What happens when SpaceX takes over your sleepy Texas town.

On the past, present, and future of gossip.

The 39-year-old—call him ‘Mack’—has been liberated longer than you realize.

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.

A profile of the film critic.

Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.

In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.

Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.

Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars—among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.

On JFK and the 1960 Democratic National Convention.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

An interview with James Baldwin on race in America.

A profile of Bruce Springsteen.