Women who left their careers to be stay-at-home mothers reflect on the decision ten years later.

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

On Manoj Bhargava, who says he’s “probably the wealthiest Indian in America,” and his ubiquitous product.

A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.

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

“Richard Williams raised her to go to war with the world. Post-tennis, she plans to live in it.”

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.

While accused killer Robert Durst was in Galveston, he made a few friends besides Morris Black.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.

How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

Fifty years ago, rodeo man Bob Gimlin was a Bigfoot skeptic. Then he and a friend caught the creature on tape.

“In my view, Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob.”

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.