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.

The self-help author kicks off her presidential campaign.

A very Florida investigation.

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

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.

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.

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."

Airbnb vs. New York City.

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

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

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.

For Gangaram Mahes, Rikers Island was the only chance for three squares and a “decent life.” So Mahes committed the same crime 31 straight times: refusing to pay the check at New York City restaurants.

Barbara Williamson co-founded Sandstone, one of the most famous radical experiments in group sex and communal living of the 1970s. Then she got wild.

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.