A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.

How a Tulsa preacher used direct mail to create the American religious right.

A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

Women who left their careers to be stay-at-home mothers reflect on the decision ten years later.

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.

How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

The Giants' miraculous 1951 comeback wasn't all that it seemed.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Cheaters.

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

A profile of CeaseFire, a group of “violence interrupters” attempting to prevent street shootings by treating them like an infectious disease.

An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?

The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.