The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

Eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained a mystery, 35 years after his conviction. One man made it his mission to identify them.

A black 16-year-old lights a white, agender 18-year-old’s skirt on fire while riding the bus. Is it a hate crime? And what’s the appropriate punishment?

They were an ordinary pair of small-time criminals in the UK. Then they figured out how to blow up an ATM.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

Nearing the end of his career, a Canadian tycoon named Michael DeGroote went for one last deal, investing $100 million to build a Las Vegas in the Dominican Republic. His partners? Two brothers with a criminal past, a con man and an old friend with close ties to the mob.

On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.

NSA-grade spyware is up for sale, and the world’s worst dictatorships are buying.

A profile of the best-selling author, self-help guru and convicted felon.

How a woman born of wealth and privilege tries to bomb the establishment from which she came and ultimately dies in the process.

This Pulitzer-winning series is reprinted online in full and for the first time by Longform.

On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.

A narrative of the Michael Brown shooting.

Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars—a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.

How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>

Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.

The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

The barely monitored use by cops of flashbangs, or military-style grenades.

How an elite anti-narcotics task force became the most brazen drug thieves on the Texas border.

Since exposing the Neapolitan mafia by publishing Gomorrah at age 27, Roberto Saviano has lived for nearly a decade under armed guard, shuttling between anonymous hotels and army barracks.

The story of Tyrone Hood, who served 21 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the Chicago criminal justice apparatus that allowed a serial killer to go free.

In March 1971, John and Bonnie Raines broke into an FBI office, stealing documents that revealed that the government was spying on its own citizens. Today, they’re hailed as heroes. Is this what the future holds for Edward Snowden?

Inside the world of underground sex trafficking in Houston.

What does it take for heroin to grab hold in the small, remote towns of America? Like any business, it starts with one man and an entrepreneurial dream.

“‘It’s like a novel,’ a newspaper editor once told me, shaking his head. When I recently asked Ruggeri, the chief investigator, to sum up the case, she stared at her desk and just said ‘incredible’ four times.”

Bringing down a cocaine empire in 1980s rural Maine.