Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old White House advisor, became steeped in white nationalism in the unlikeliest of places: a Santa Monica high school and Duke University.

On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.

Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.

In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other.

In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.

He was 8 years old, and the signs of abuse were obvious. Yet time and again, caseworkers from child-protective services failed to help him.

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.

In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.

The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.

George Otto was a respected family physician with a bustling clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business.

Paul Skalnik has a decades-long criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.

A swanky 12-story condo in Sarasota nearly collapsed, was rendered unlivable for years, and no one was to blame.

Forty-eight years after being attacked, a St. Petersburg, Florida woman searches for a way to cope.

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.

Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me. Why did I seek his approval for so long?

James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.

Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.

In the ring, Hector “Macho” Camacho was a champ. Out of it, he was a coke-fueled, womanizing wild man, until the appetites that consumed him cost him his life.

Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive—and perhaps of all time—back away from his art to open a construction business?

Previously: Jason Fagone on the Longform Podcast.