The possibilities and limits of investigative reporting.

Everything that happened before former NBA star Lamar Odom suffered multiple strokes on the floor of a Pahrump brothel.

The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.

An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.

A college president on the bizarre experience of being informed by NBC News that he had hired a war criminal to teach French.

Brian Hickey, a journalist who was induced into a coma after being left for dead following a hit and run accident, reports the story of his recovery.

Tackling the science of cooking, one perfect french fry at a time.

The fall of a famous anchor.

A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

“It takes this huge amount of will and energy for anything to happen to you.”

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

When colleges shut down, people get hurt.

Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history.

The fading beauty of Japan’s traditional cafes and their signature snack.

The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.

How a July 4th meal exposes the coronavirus risk for thousands of US food workers.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

“I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous.”

When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the U.S. economy.

Grammy-winning liner notes describing the rise, fall, and rebirth of Roky Erickson, who founded the psychedelic rock pioneers The Thirteenth Floor Elevators before a charge stemming from a single marijuana joint landed him in a Texas mental hospital.

The crimes of former NFL star Rae Carruth.

Previously: “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill” (Thomas Lake • Sports Illustrated)

A cross-country drive with Michael O'Donoghue, the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.

Previously: The Longform Guide to SNL.