On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”

The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.

F. Lee Bailey is disbarred, penniless, and giving business advice out of his girlfriend’s salon.

Is Russia behind a secret weapon that’s targeted dozens of American diplomats and spies?

The world’s most famous child star grows up.

How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.

Scott Dadich, 34, has been described by a former boss as a “combination of Pelé and Jesus” and is now tasked with figuring out the future of the magazine. All he’s got in his new Times Square office: an iPad and a book of George Lois’ Esquire covers.

The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”

Ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, an Indonesian family is reunited.

The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.

How a woman born of wealth and privilege tries to bomb the establishment from which she came and ultimately dies in the process.

This Pulitzer-winning series is reprinted online in full and for the first time by Longform.

The money has dried up, the models are broken and “there are simply many, many more high-priced lawyers today than there is high-priced legal work.” On the end of an era.

Fifty years ago, 180,000 whales vanished from the ocean. The mystery is not who killed them, but why.

A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.

On the writer’s new book and tell-all style.

On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.

Examining the state’s campaign to grant clemency and restore civil rights.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

On the restauranteur behind New York’s Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.

The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?