Long reads, short reads, and everything in between
The Sunday Long Read
The Butterfly in the Prison Yard
On April 8, 2024, conservationist Niloufar Bayani was released after spending six years in a notorious Iranian prison. In the preceding months, journalist Lucy Sherriff and The Sunday Long Read team had been working on an account of how she got there and once there, how she survived. This is her story.
Truly*Adventurous
Victory
Eleven-year-old Victoria has her sights set on playing Little League with the boys. She goes through tryouts and is told to learn to cook. Instead, she changes history.
bioGraphic
A Way Forward With Wolves
Washington state’s long-running conflict between wolves and ranchers mirrors our society’s bigger ideological rifts. Some are trying to bridge the gap—using both horse and technology.
National Geographic
When Beavers Flew
In the 1940s one government wildlife official came up with a wild plan to deal with nuisances beavers: attaching them to leftover parachutes from World War Two and throwing them out of a postal service aeroplane.
The craziest thing? It worked.
Drilled
The Chemical Weapon Next Door
An oil refinery accident almost exposed residents in SoCal, to a flesh-eating vapor cloud of modified hydrofluoric acid. It could happen again. Teenage Girl Scout Summer Spencer has a plan to save her neighborhood.