In Michele Bachmann’s home district evangelicals have pushed anti-gay policies to the school board. After a rash of suicides, teens are fighting back.

A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.

Previously posted on Longform.org on January 25th, 2012.

In Ontario, Canada, ribfests were largely non-profit affairs. Then one man decided to make a profit off their popularity.

How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.

How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

How one man wants to transport the world’s heaviest cargo in airships that are lighter than air.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

The British and Irish have coined some fabulous terms to describe nature and landscrape. “Doofers” is the Scots’ term for horse-shit; “clinkerbell” means icicle in Hampshire.

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.

It took a desperate screenwriter to find Max Mermelstein, Miami’s former coke overlord, after twenty-five years in hiding.

A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.

On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.

A reporter heads to Istanbul, where Iverson is playing minor league hoops in a 3,200-seat arena and hanging out at T.G.I. Friday’s.

In an upscale Denver condo, twice-a-month they convened from Thursday to Sunday with 95 percent-pure Shabu.

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

The story of a school shooting in Townville, S.C. and what happened to the first-graders who saw it all happen.

What happened after two Wisconsin girls made headlines for attempting to kill their friend in the internet character’s name.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.