A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.

The life history of an unassuming Sudanese man, Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has spent the last nine years in Guantánamo Bay prison.

On the front lines of a dating culture dominated by right and left swipes.

The ups and downs of being an accidental viral sensation.

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”

A Profile Auditor goes sniffing after anomalies in the consumption habits and personal data of an unsuspecting hotel clerk.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

How the death of a Muslim recruit revealed a culture of brutality.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

In spite of the boiling-hot anticipation of its release, no one had much fun making this movie.

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

Previously: Conover discusses this story on the Longform Podcast.

A profile of silent film comedian Buster Keaton:

The story of his life seems in its twists and dives borrowed from his movies, survival demanding a pure lack of sentiment.

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.

He has been president for more than a year—so why is he still holding rallies?

In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.

The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”

On gray.

Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.