A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

Investigating the disappearance of a trans teen who hasn’t been seen since 2012.

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

Charles D. King tries to change the entertainment landscape.

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

A love letter and the jacked up emotions of reality TV.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

On the cusp of delivery, a mother-to-be recounts the anxiety-laden path to parenthood.

Brock Turner’s twisted legacy—and a Stanford professor’s relentless pursuit of justice.

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.

A Ranger graduate breaks down an ordeal that shapes some of the nation’s finest soldiers.

How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.

During a decade when Cascadia’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations.

A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

The 1966 Esquire profile, with notes from the author.

On Thursday, October 10, Gay Talese will tape a live episode of the Longorm Podcast at NYU. The event is free and open to the public.

Last fall, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district just west of Kabul. Six months later, amid allegations of torturing and murdering locals, the team was gone. Shortly after they left, the remains of 10 missing villagers were found outside their vacated base. An investigation into a possible war crime.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. Searching the library of my college, I found Marx, Lenin, and Mao, but no Strauss, Voegelin, Hayek, or Friedman. I found every variety of socialist monthly, weekly, or quarterly, but not a single journal that confessed to being conservative.

A young Brit goes against the political grain.

“What we’re doing in writing is not all that different from what we’ve been doing all our lives, i.e., using our personalities as a way of coping with life.”

On equating beauty with self-worth.

A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.

An ode.

An interview gone awry.