Tony Judt on sex, the academy, and dating a graduate student while chairing NYU’s History Department.

A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.

Ten years ago, Esquire did a piece about Harvard Law grads who had eschewed their degrees. One of them was the late comedian.

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.

At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.

The story of a newscaster’s suicide.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

“These, I now know, are the details of how my mother died..:”

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

Investigating the disappearance of a trans teen who hasn’t been seen since 2012.

The story of a Puerto Rican family trying to get settled in Chicago after Hurricane Maria.

They’ve built a hidden society in a state park. Among the haole squatters of Kalalau.

The inside story of how an Ivy League food scientist turned shoddy data into viral studies.

How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.

What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

A profile of the singer-songwriter.

When presenting as a man, this “tech bro” entrepreneur was the toast of Silicon Valley—until she stepped into boardrooms as a woman.

“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.’

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.

Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Part of our guide to Skip Hollandsworth’s true crime writing at Slate.