Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.

On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.

A profile of the author at 84.

Speaking to a group that started their college lives in September, 2001, the host of The Daily Show embraces how difficult the real world is:

I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead. I have not found this generation to be cynical or apathetic or selfish. They are as strong and as decent as any people that I have met. And I will say this, on my way down here I stopped at Bethesda Naval, and when you talk to the young kids that are there that have just been back from Iraq and Afghanistan, you don’t have the worry about the future that you hear from so many that are not a part of this generation but judging it from above.

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.

A profile of Sophia Amoruso, the 30-year-old CEO of Nasty Gal and author of #GIRLBOSS.

The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.

A dispatch from Donetsk.

On the importance of skateboarding.

On Leon Botstein and the future of Bard College, which he has run for four decades.

The story of TWA Flight 841.

The running back’s life since he was indicted on charges of beating his son and suspended from the NFL.

The 52-year-old designer finds himself at a crossroads.

The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.

The murder of an Iranian band in Brooklyn by one of their own.

Previously: Nancy Jo Sales on the Longform Podcast.

The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.

What’s the reason for Mike Tyson’s continuing appeal?

He went from a viral pop hit to an arrest for conspiracy to murder charges in just under six months. Was Bobby Shmurda “too real” for his label?

An inside look at how an ad agency sells a car in 2015.

The trouble with the all-but-obligatory networking site, “an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.”

“He was untouchable, or he thought he was. But that era is over, for all those guys.”

Inside the grand jury proceedings.

On America’s deep and persistent fear of the black penis.

A journey through Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, but now collapsing under the weight of the world’s highest rates of inflation and violent crime.