The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic. In his world, everything was for sale. Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder. It's a world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit, the quiet ports where ships slip in by night, the back room of the clinic down the street.

It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.

A profile of a dresser of celebrities.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised — and promoted — a Gun Trace Task Force leader.

An upstart football league goes horribly awry during its first season,.

For years, Mormon Mommy blogger Natalie Lovin curated a picture-perfect life. Then she left the church—and her husband.

How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.

An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

They had $19 million, a deal with Disney, and dreams of becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. Then everything fell apart.

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

A profile of England’s pre-eminent scholar of race, culture, and nationalism.

Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.

Bruce Cawsey Waite has no home, no office, and wears a dead man’s suit.

The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.

The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.

The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.

On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.