Best Long-form Articles

“ Once-in-a-century floods and droughts now appear seemingly every year. That they are still called “extreme weather events” is a misnomer.”

“ US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”

When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?

She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to hurt her?

A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia butts up against the high grass and black mud of the Everglades

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s driving this project?

The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.

After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?