“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

“In a landscape in which black people dominate the culture but have few recognized channels to respond to it, the show, which stars two American black men, provides a venue for black authority in the mainstream.”

A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

Netflix has hired everyone and they already know what you’re going to like.

An investigation into the aftermath of an allegation.

How Shane Smith built Vice.

How the Christian film industry works.

A working theory about what makes internet writing uniquely “internetty.”

Who is this person?

A deep dive into what ails the media company.

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

“Didion was one of the boys, clearly, in the sense that men had noticed her writing and wanted to publish her. But she also couldn’t quite fit into their regime.”

How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

Explaining the explainer.

The future of online speech.

Note From the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and Senior Politics Reporter Celeste Katz for doing their jobs. Reporters Josh Keefe and Josh Saul were targeted for firing before an editor persuaded the company to reverse its decision. As we continued working on the story, we were asked to take part in a review process, which, we ultimately learned, involved egregious breaches of confidentiality and journalism ethics.

Saul is a Longform contributing editor.

One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

“We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine.”

An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.

The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.

A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.

“Watching the cells populate, it rapidly became clear that many of us had weathered more than we had been willing to admit to one another.”