The Snatchback
If your ex-spouse takes your child and hightails it abroad, the legal system often isn’t on your side. So what can you do? One option: hire a former Army ranger named Gus Zamora to take back your kid.
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A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web
DecorMyEyes is a online eyewear store with an unusual business plan; the owner harasses and intimidates customers who complain in order to get negative reviews posted across the web, in turn making his website more visible to Google searchers.
The Idea That Eats Smart People
On the story we tell ourselves about artificial intelligence.
The Bizarre Scheme to Transform a Remote Island into the New Dubai
What happens when an impoverished island nation enters into a deal to sell its own citizenship in bulk.
“It's the Dirty Little Secret That Everybody Knows About”
On sleep deprivation in the NBA.
The Pretender
People in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, thought Lois Reiss was a nice wife and grandmother. If she had a vice, it was playing the slots. Then she committed murder.
Hotter Than Lava
The barely monitored use by cops of flashbangs, or military-style grenades.
The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst
Wayne Simmons was ideal conservative commentator. A former C.I.A. operative, he ate lunch with Donald Rumsfeld, took trips to Guantánamo aboard Air Force Two, and pumped the party line on Fox News. There was only one problem: Simmons had never been in the C.I.A.
The Nick Paumgarten Archive
Elevators, online dating and the mind behind Super Mario Bros. — Paumgarten on Longform.
The Ken Doll Reboot: Beefy, Cornrowed, and Pan-Racial
“From this day forward, Ken doesn’t always have to look like the most basic frat bro ever to get a B- in econ. He can be complicated, mysterious—maybe even vegan. No more Mr. Nice Ken. (Actually, he’ll still be very, very nice.)”
The Child Care Industry Was Collapsing. Mrs. Jackie Bet Everything on an Impossible Dream to Save It.
Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.
The Man Who Saves You from Yourself
Going undercover with David Sullivan, cult infiltrator.
The Hit Man’s Tale
How an honors student became a hired killer.
Brave and Afraid and Heading Down the Longest Road
One man’s battle with mental illness.
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Brave and Afraid
“He was an ebullient boy, quick to laugh and easy to love. And then, at 17, the shadow fell. A devastating diagnosis of mental illness. Trouble, hospital, home, into the depths again. Now, sustained by his mother’s unimaginably patient love, he aims to make his way back.”
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Days of Crisis, Compassion
“There may be a more exhausting journey than that of the mentally ill, their families, and their caregivers. But for those locked in the cycle of hopes raised and dashed, it’s hard to imagine what it could be.”
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Desperately Guarding Hope
“No matter how he hates them, Michael Bourne has finally decided to stick with his meds. They may save his life, but at the price of not feeling fully alive. It is a cruel calculus, for him and for many.”
Stranger in the Village
On being black in an all-white Swiss village.
Reelin’ in the Years
Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando.
The Land That Time and Money Forgot
On New York City’s housing projects.
Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth
A 15-year-old hacker and his tricks.
Bad to the Bone
A medical device company experiments on humans.
Death on the Path to Enlightenment
Westerners’ spiritual quests in India gone wrong.
The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?
How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.
The Fifth Problem
How Moscow State university discriminated against Jewish applicants using deceptively simple problems.
The Longform Guide to Journalism Hoaxes, Pranks and Lies
Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Janet Cooke and the best April Fool's in magazine history.
We Aren’t the World
New research upends ideas about culture’s impact on how our brains our wired.
