A profile of the man who teaches America’s police to be “sheepdogs.”

The complicated life and death of Hideki Irabu, a pitcher who was supposed to become a Yankee legend and found heartache instead.

How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.

The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.

The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.

A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts.

Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.

Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?

Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

An occasionally collaborative profile of the director.

How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.

Twenty-five years after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers were killed, the lead negotiator at the scene is still arguing about what happened.

A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.

On the life and death of Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old autistic boy who disappeared in October after walking out of his New York City school.

Previously: Robert Kolker on the Longform Podcast.

In bleak farmlands of East Anglia, the first wave of Eastern European migrants learned exploitation and extortion from their own experiences with day labor. Then they began to prey on fellow immigrants, luring in them into debt and then forcing them to commit crimes to pay it off.

The archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán has been hidden away for decades. Then an artist decided to make a performance of getting it back.

T La Rock was one of the pioneers of hip-hop. But after an attack put him in a nursing home, he had to fight to recover his identity, starting with the fact that he’d ever been a rapper at all.

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

A profile of the “acrobatic genius of the trapeze”:

As he spoke, he looked up at the pipes and swings in the arena ceiling. A mechanic was working on the rigging, but Tito spoke thoughtfully, for he seemed to be seeing something else. "Sometimes I see movies of myself in the air and I say, 'Jesus, how can I do that?' I wonder who do I think I am ... but, yes, I do admire myself in films sometimes as if I am watching another person. I have sometimes dreamed my tricks at night, you know, and then tried to master them from the dream."

Every year, members of the Gold Prospectors Association of America pack up their RVs in search of adventure, friendship, and a bucketful of pay dirt.

On the potential existence of personalized bioweapons, which could attack a single individual without leaving a trace, and how they might be stopped.

A profile of the 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped on a private bus as it circled New Delhi.

From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.