Inside carpenter brothers Ryan and Dylan, and their stripper sister Lee-Grace Dougherty’s eight-day, fifteen-state, AK-47-wielding crime spree.

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

Virginia authorities possess DNA evidence that may exonerate dozens of  convicted men. Why won’t the state say who they are?

A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

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

A profile of former Bosnia Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, whose war crimes trial began, and was abruptly suspended, this week.

A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.

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

The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

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

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.

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.

Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

Looking back on the making of Sam, Bill, and Neal.

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

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

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

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

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

After 13 years of war, the United States has helped create a nation ruled by drug lords.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.