The Greatest Boat Race Ever Dreamed Up Over Beers
An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.
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After a Year Without Crowds, Caroline Polachek Takes the Stage
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.
Raising Baby Sharks from the Dead
Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.
The Faded Smile
Eddie Griffin made it to the NBA. Then his life began to unravel.
How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police
A sociologist learns techniques for evading the authorities.
The Day We Discovered Our Parents Were Russian Spies
Their entire lives, Alex and Tim Foley thought their mom and dad were typical, boring American parents. Then the FBI showed up.
The 76ers' Plan to Win (Yes, Really)
The team’s grand, analytics-driven experiment led by a business school grad who won the GM job after giving a “PowerPoint presentation that Sixers executives now recall as an ‘investment thesis.’”
Into the Light
After losing his sight at age 3, Michael May went on to become the first blind CIA agent, set a world record for downhill skiing, and start a successful Silicon Valley company. Then he got the chance to see again.
The Day the Movies Died
The Top Gun effect; how Hollywood became a factory for sequels, comic book and video game adaptations, and anything else easily marketed to under-25-year-old males.
I Sabotaged My Boss With Ransomware From the Dark Web
What does it take to navigate the dark web, buy some Ransomware, and extort your victims? The writer tries it for himself.
How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants
Roberto Primero Luis set out across the U.S.-Mexico border last year as previous Guatemalan migrants had. But the crossing has changed.
The Longform Guide to the Death Penalty
Compiled by Elon Green.
Over the Line
An investigation into shootings by U.S. Border Agents that have killed six Mexicans on Mexican soil over the past five years.
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero
After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.
"It seems to me that I am more to the left than you, Mr. Stalin."
An interview with Joseph Stalin.
The Story That Tore Through the Trees
On Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire and its lingering effects on our collective imagination and environment.
The Swingers’ Guide To Islam
A Javanese shrine where Muslim pilgrims seeking good fortune must peform a ritual: find a stranger, have sex with them.
The Island Where People Forget to Die
Why do Ikarians live so long—and remain mentally sharp until the end?
Which Way Did the Taliban Go?
As NATO leaves, the Afghan National Army grapples with a resilient Taliban.
Baudrillard and Babes at the Consumer Electronics Show
A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”
All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.
Guantanamo Bay: How the White House lost the fight to close it
Inside Obama’s most glaring reversal.
The Race to Save Peter Kassig
A New York lawyer’s attempt to secure an American aid worker’s release from ISIS.
The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On
With a little South American reinterpretation, Confederate imagery becomes harmless kitsch. Or does it?
The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole
John Barrymore once had a totem pole on his Beverly Hills estate. But where did it come from?
