Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying. The real story isn’t that simple.

The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.

In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

On what it’s like to go viral and the moral complications of laughing along.

Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Paralympic gold medalist Marieke Vervoort live her life.

Two friends try to make a dream come true.

The Puerto Rican reggaetonero has come to dominate global pop on his own terms.

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.

At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.

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

Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

How young actors are navigating the new world of opportunities on our ever-shrinking screens.

The angry last days of Ty Cobb.