Best Long-form Articles

THE SOCIAL REGISTER WAS A WHO’S WHO OF AMERICA’S RICH AND POWERFUL—THE HEIRS OF ROBBER BARONS, SCIONS OF POLITICAL DYNASTIES, AND DESCENDANTS OF MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS. IT WAS ALSO THE PERFECT HIT LIST FOR THE COUNTRY’S HARDEST-WORKING ART THIEF.

The 2024 arrest of El Mayo Zambada, the historic leader of one faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, sparked a war between his followers and those of Chapo Guzmán, his former partner.

The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer?

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

On Santa Cruz Island, they killed the cows, sheep, and bees. Now it’s time to finish the job

Unravelling the Ultimate Political Conspiracy

A Harvard-trained lawyer was convicted of committing bizarre home invasions. Psychosis may have compelled him to do it.

“ 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?