In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus got cancer—and then accidentally shared his diagnosis with the public over social media. Turns out getting sick renewed his faith, healed his old friendships, and reminded him what makes life worth living.

Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.

Help came right away. And then it stopped.

Music writer Mark Fisher (who died this week) on the decline of Michael Jackson.

An interview with Michael Schur, who wrote for Saturday Night Live and The Office before co-creating Parks and Recreation and Brookyn Nine-Nine.

In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time

Life after losing your memory at 22.

The creators of some of the most distinctive craft beers in the world are identical twins from Denmark. They also can’t stand each other.

Previously: Jonah Weiner on the Longform Podcast.

A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.

The promises and pitfalls of self-tracking devices and apps.

Bangalore was once the icon of a globalized, high tech, utopian future. Now it’s a sign of global catastrophe.

Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.

We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.

With the biggest bout of his career looming, Andre Ward — who some consider the world’s best boxer — opens up about his family and his faith.

The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.

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A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

“She scrolls, she waits. For that little notification box to appear.”

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”