On LA Noire and the gaming paradoxes presented by pairing nuanced storytelling with a player’s free will.

Somewhere in the desert, buried under a mountain of sand and rock, is an ancient shipwreck. Maybe.

Inside the empire of Botox.

“If we don’t run, then we won’t achieve.”

They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."

What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?

Wih Alexey Navalny in prison, one of his closest aides is carrying on the lonely work of the opposition.

Note From the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and Senior Politics Reporter Celeste Katz for doing their jobs. Reporters Josh Keefe and Josh Saul were targeted for firing before an editor persuaded the company to reverse its decision. As we continued working on the story, we were asked to take part in a review process, which, we ultimately learned, involved egregious breaches of confidentiality and journalism ethics.

Saul is a Longform contributing editor.

The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.

Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.

An attempt to recruit black students at Virginia’s most famous “segregation academy.”

As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.

Forty years after its release, the story of “Free to Be… You and Me.”

The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”

The untold story of steroids in baseball.

One prison’s efforts to rehabilitate captured members of Boko Haram.

The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.

An archaeology of debt.

On the people who tried to vote and couldn’t.

A cancer doctor on losing his wife to cancer.