Jay-Z on his new book Decoded, his parents’ record collection, and the real reason rappers have a tendency to grab their junk on stage.

A son’s love letter to his sick mom.

When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went undercover, testing her sanity, her marriage, and the justice system.

Interviews with a receptionist, a factory worker, and others about life on the job.

The M.I.T. Media Lab knew Epstein was a convicted sex offender. They asked for his help anyway, then covered their tracks.

On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

“I never got the ‘I’ve never seen a black woman, let me touch your hair’ vibe, it was more just like, ‘Hi, attractive person, let’s do this.’”

Fifty years ago, Rona Barrett forged a Hollywood gossip empire. Then she left it all behind, her innovations attributed to others, her legacy almost entirely overlooked.

One man's transition from military to civilian life.

Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast.

Why Parks Middle School decided to cheat.

The aging action star’s second wind abroad: political maneuvering, many guns and, most importantly, a market for his B movies.

Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.

How an Italian businessman facing fraud charges and a Brazilian politician turned a billion dollar project to build the high speed Rio-São Paulo rail line into a farce.

How the Mast Brothers fooled people into paying $10 a bar for mediocre chocolate, and how a food blogger was able to figure it out.

A Hollywood screenwriter finds out his identity’s been stolen when a hooker calls–from his private office–demanding to be paid for the sex they didn’t just have.

Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.

On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.

A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.

No one can seem to agree on his surviving merits. He wrote like an angel, the consensus goes, except when he was writing like a malfunctioning sex robot attempting to administer cunnilingus to his typewriter.

His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

On Cops, cop movies and Ferguson.