How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

The Giants' miraculous 1951 comeback wasn't all that it seemed.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Cheaters.

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

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

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

A profile of CeaseFire, a group of “violence interrupters” attempting to prevent street shootings by treating them like an infectious disease.

An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?

The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.

On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.

An oral history of James Brown, from Macon to the top.

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

A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later – posing as a high school student.

Con man turned pastor turned con man; a profile of a serial scammer and the movie he tried to make about himself.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

In Michele Bachmann’s home district evangelicals have pushed anti-gay policies to the school board. After a rash of suicides, teens are fighting back.

On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.

From a small Ohio town to Afghanistan, a portrait of the perpetrator of a massacre.

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.

Previously posted on Longform.org on January 25th, 2012.

In Ontario, Canada, ribfests were largely non-profit affairs. Then one man decided to make a profit off their popularity.

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

When Elysian Brewing sold itself to Big Beer, it set off a revolt among Seattle craft beer enthusiasts.