A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.

The underground economy of child sex trafficking, and what happens after someone is rescued from it.

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.

“Everyone on the boat is racist and nice. Including me.”

How good is Julian Newman, really?

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.

A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.

A profile of Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer and the author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.

How an Italian thug looted MGM, brought Credit Lyonnais to its knees, and made the Pope cry.

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.

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.

“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.

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.