Longform Best of 2019

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

Law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.

On the influencer moms of Byron Bay.

In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.

For 30 years, Paul Shuen was one of the city’s most respected obstetricians. Then his nurses noticed something unusual about the way he delivered babies.

For years, I was drawn to his strength, his bravado, his violence. But then he forced me to come to terms with how that idea of masculinity poisoned his life — and mine.

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

Where Dooce.com founder Heather Armstrong is today.

At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.

“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”