On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

In Michele Bachmann’s home district evangelicals have pushed anti-gay policies to the school board. After a rash of suicides, teens are fighting back.

On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.

From a small Ohio town to Afghanistan, a portrait of the perpetrator of a massacre.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.

Previously posted on Longform.org on January 25th, 2012.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

In Ontario, Canada, ribfests were largely non-profit affairs. Then one man decided to make a profit off their popularity.

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

When Elysian Brewing sold itself to Big Beer, it set off a revolt among Seattle craft beer enthusiasts.

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.

Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

The story of a transplant from a 26-year-old bike mechanic to a 41-year-old fireman with severe burns.

How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

Why “the legal equivalent of outer space” continues to exist, fifteen years after 9/11.

Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

How one man wants to transport the world’s heaviest cargo in airships that are lighter than air.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

When massive ships sink, burn, fall apart or get stuck, their owners call Nick Sloane. His job: figure out how to save as much as he can.

How the author writes best-selling non-fiction books without the ability to leave her house.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.