A non-fiction comic on the evolution of military and civilian style amid the ‘forever war.’

The history of civilian internment camps.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.

Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.

Making sense of a $69 million NFT.

Bitcoin partying at an Orlando hotel with worshippers of the blockchain.

The origin story of a now-ubiquitous celebration.

The private grief of Courteney Ross, George Floyd’s girlfriend.

A journey of recovery through electroconvulsive therapy.

On the rise and demise of the Segway.

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

On the writer W.G. Sebald.

A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.

“In the recent history of American music, there’s no figure parallel to Lehrer in his effortless ascent to fame, his trajectory into the heart of the culture — and then his quiet, amiable, inexplicable departure.”

“Which is how, despite the drinking, the stealing, the racist outburst, the abysmal courtroom performance, the disbarment, and the ultimate imprisonment of his lead attorney, an intellectually disabled man has ended up on the verge of execution.”

A profile of Uruguay President José Mujica, a former revolutionary who’s been shot six times, was imprisoned for 14 years and, since taking office, has shunned the presidential mansion in favor of a small farm while legalizing gay marriage, abortion and marijuana.

Ervil LeBaron, the Mormon Manson, terrorized Mexico’s Mormon compounds, ordering the killing of enemies and relatives alike. Even after he was captured, followers continued treat the “Hit List” he left behind as the word of God.

The former chancellor of New York City schools was not, in fact, “a child of the streets. He was not an academically unmotivated student. He did not come from a deprived family background. He did not grow up in public housing as we understand it today.”

How John Kiriakou, a public opponent of US torture policy, became the first CIA officer convicted of leaking classified information to the press.

A profile of legendary L.A. crack dealer Freeway Rick Ross, now out of jail and trying to sell everything from weaves to his own biopic, written by a journalist who has known him for decades.

The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.

How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all down-and-out single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.

The creators of some of the most distinctive craft beers in the world are identical twins from Denmark. They also can’t stand each other.

Previously: Jonah Weiner on the Longform Podcast.