“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”

This isn't an essay or simply a woe-is-we narrative about how hard it is to be a black boy in America. This is a lame attempt at remembering the contours of slow death and life in America for one black American teenager under Central Mississippi skies. I wish I could get my Yoda on right now and surmise all this shit into a clean sociopolitical pull-quote that shows supreme knowledge and absolute emotional transformation, but I don't want to lie.

Over the last several weeks, dozens of lawmakers, strategists and advocates described the closed-door meetings and tactical decisions that led to approval of same-sex marriage in New York, about two years after it was rejected by the Legislature. This account is based on those interviews, most of which were granted on the condition of anonymity to describe conversations that were intended to be confidential.

The self-help author kicks off her presidential campaign.

A very Florida investigation.

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”

How a mysterious twitching epidemic overtook one Western New York town.

On chemo.

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.

Riding along on the Lunch Express.

How automated ‘execution algorithms’ are taking the world’s markets on a wild ride that few economists can even understand, much less control.

The murder of an Iranian band in Brooklyn by one of their own.

Previously: Nancy Jo Sales on the Longform Podcast.

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. The story of a neonatal nurse helps illustrate why.

Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.

Airbnb vs. New York City.

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

Jen Tullock is ready for her moment. Is the moment ready for her?

A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.

...Prince hoped to hire Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters."