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The Quest to Preserve Stephen Hawking’s Voice
How a Silicon Valley team helped rebuild his distinctive robotic sound.
The Great High School Impostor
All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.
From Taylor Swift to the World's Largest T-shirt Cannon: An Internet Reader
A working theory about what makes internet writing uniquely “internetty.”
The Birth-Tissue Profiteers
How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry.
I Donated My Kidney to Help a Stranger. But What About the Person I Couldn't Help?
On generosity, selfishness, and organ donation.
Before There Was a Spark, There Was the Wind
Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.
How the West Lost COVID
How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?
The Mister Rogers No One Saw
Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
Unlimited Sand and Money Still Won’t Save the Hamptons
How much sand can a half-billion dollars dredge up? Almost certainly not enough.
She Stole Another’s Identity and Took Her Secret to the Grave. Who Was She?
She was Becky Sue Turner, then Lori Erica Ruff. Now she’s Jane Doe.
Where Did the Hockey Millions Go?
How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.
How the President Got to ‘I Do’ on Same-Sex Marriage
Barack Obama wanted to endorse gay marriage on his own timetable. Joe Biden had other plans.
The Social Laboratory
On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.
How the Ray Rice Scandal Unfolded
An investigation into who knew what, and when.
The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder
Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.
Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?
The Longform Guide to Thanksgiving
Compiled by Tim Maddocks.
The Killing Fields
Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.
The Season from Hell
Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.
The Franchise
How Madden NFL went from a programmer’s childhood dream to a $3 billion business.
The Orlando Killer: “Always Agitated. Always Mad.”
Who was Omar Mateen?
Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take on Corporate Agriculture?
Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.
Busted: The Secret NYPD Files
Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.
The Predatory Lending Machine Crushing Small Businesses Across America
How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.
