A profile of the grieving musician, who lost his teenage son 18 months ago.

A college student accused a powerful man of rape. Then she became a suspect.

What’s a writer to do when the audacity dwindles?

“There are no good options. But some are worse than others.”

Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.

A late night host finds a new voice.

After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.

Discussions of character with the Late Show host.

On medical acting and real pain.

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.

“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

Photographer Trevor Paglen makes art out of government secrets.

Hear Jonah Weiner discuss this article on the Longform Podcast.

"For 20 beautiful years, my homeland was open and (kind of) free. Now, I fear, it’s closing back up."

Previously: Keith Gessen on the Longform Podcast.

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.

Scenes from a class conflict playing out between millionaires and billionaires on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Fifty years ago, Rona Barrett forged a Hollywood gossip empire. Then she left it all behind, her innovations attributed to others, her legacy almost entirely overlooked.

The author takes a trip to HempCon with her anxious, insomniac, ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother.

Getting arrested was the best thing to ever happen to Jeremy Meeks.

How Derrick Hamilton went from wrongfully convicted to legal scholar to free.

How a pair of HGTV stars are trying to renovate the reputation of Waco, Texas.

An artist at the end of his life.

When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.