Longform Best of 2018

A 60,000-word investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire.

How a Middle East monarchy hired American ex-soldiers to kill its political enemies.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

Hear Rukmini Callimachi discuss this article on the Longform Podcast

Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.