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.

Pavel Galitsky, 100 years old, blogger and Skyper, survivor of 15 years in Stalin’s Siberian Kolyma mines.

On Manoj Bhargava, who says he’s “probably the wealthiest Indian in America,” and his ubiquitous product.

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

In an odd way, crime has fallen off the political landscape. To an extent it's been replaced on the agenda by concern about the dire consequences of mass incarceration. But violent crime itself remains a major area in which the United States lags behind other developed countries. To suggest that smarter management of the criminal justice system could make it less brutal while simultaneously creating large reductions in the quantity of crime sounds utopian. And yet the proposals for parole system reform found in this article are utterly convincing.

-M. Yglesias

On a press junket in Ecuador, the author investigates the ethics of shopping.

How group of misfits in Texas including Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings snubbed Nashville and brought the hippies and rednecks together. An oral history of outlaw country.

Scientists quarrel about the fate of animals living in the 1,600 square mile exclusion zone.

Margaret Profet, evolutionary biologist and MacArthur grant recipient, disappeared in 2005. She has neither been seen nor heard from since.

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.

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

On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.

His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.

The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.

The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?

“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”

He may not be the surest bet for the Presidency, but Bernie Sanders might be the most interesting candidate in the race.

When Jeb Bush married his wife, it was the bravest thing he’d ever done. Her role in his life is still a mystery.

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

“Richard Williams raised her to go to war with the world. Post-tennis, she plans to live in it.”

Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

Life at a roadside zoo with ligers, orangutans, and an elephant in Florida.

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.