OxyContin's 12-hour problem
Befriend, impress, promise, deceive: for seven years Hamish McLaren stole the savings of investors to feed his lifestyle. But that was only the start.
The Dream Machine, one of several recent temporary exhibitions designed for Instagram, quite literally makes a mockery of our dreams and imaginations.
My father's stories come from a career behind the bar of New York's oldest pub, among the alcoholics and loners and deviants who became his people and helped him find his voice as a writer.
Our smart TV seemed to amplify a sense of urgency. The simple, daily question, “What should we watch?” suddenly had stakes.
In the wake of Weinstein reporting, much has been made of the phenomena of “whisper networks,” informal chains of secondhand and sometimes firsthand information about sexual harassers or rapists in a community or industry. But if so many individuals and organizations had known of Morgan Marquis-Boire’s alleged assaults already, why hadn’t they come forward vocally and publicly?
At a time of #metoo fearlessness, a collection of female critics interrogate their own fandom for music’s most celebrated sexists
YouTube just looks like they're trying to play catch-up to Netflix, and it’s sad....
In this personal essay, Abigail Rasminsky looks back on the youthful days she trained to become a professional dancer — and the injury that put an end to her dreams.
The idea that outdoor recreation leads to meaningful conservation rests on a big ‘if.’
A look back at the history of RuPaul on trans identity.
A personal essay in which Breaking the Ruhls author, Larry Ruhl, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.
Millennials look to be the first generation in a long time to have it worse than their parents. Who is to blame? Or is that the wrong question? ODT...
Writer Sarah Betancourt explores her connections to Espiritismo and Santeria.
Big Vape is copying Big Tobacco’s playbook.
For anyone acquainted with the real history of LSD in the United States, its migration into the boardrooms of Silicon Valley is far from a shock.
Hua Hsu on Sean Miyashiro’s company, which is an authority on how to create pop-culture crossovers.
A Dunedin rest home where a chef claimed residents were being fed for $1.60 per resident is among a long list of issues uncovered in an...
Big Vape is copying Big Tobacco’s playbook.
Where are the bodies of Otago's four executed murderers? Bruce Munro digs up a halloween mystery of gruesome hangings, lost graves and headless...
“Apparently, Mao didn’t like fruit. It was an easy re-gift."Now an exhibition about the mango's short-lived sanctification has opened at Museum Reit...
The former soccer star is having quite a second act.
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered a devastating catastrophe in one of the country’s largest nuclear power plants. The cleanup will take decades, and it’s no job for humans.
The Atlantic’s controversial article “My Family’s Slave” serves as a disturbing reminder of how easy it is for “normal” people to do terrible things.
The e-commerce behemoth is on its way to becoming the biggest marketplace for outdoor-recreation products and its influence over the industry grows every day. Is this the apocalypse for the shops and brands that have fueled our love of adventure? Or can they learn to fight back without destroying one another?
Our country’s most iconic beauty pageant is undergoing a post-#MeToo makeover, staffing its board with former contestants its swimsuit competition.
When my amateur attempts at the art weren't working, I went to YouTube star Nigel Saunders
The playwright has a lot to tell viewers about human nature and our depraved era. Too bad so few people have seen his plays.
The Momofuku chef’s lavishly produced show isn’t about what food is, it’s about what it means, and about the choices people make that change its meaning.
A glorious and ill-considered expedition to retrace the nearly 300-mile sufferfest endured by colonial badass (and not yet turncoat) Benedict Arnold and his 1,100 brave, starving men. Their aim: to take Quebec City from the British. Ours: to survive.
After his death, Emily Urquhart 'sees' her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
Food activist Shakirah Simley lays out her philosophy for a 'good food movement' that prioritizes racial equality.
It's true: once upon a time students regularly drank in bars.
The producers, hosts, and composers behind This American Life, S-Town, Radiolab, and more on how they use music to enhance—but not manipulate—a listening experience.
Minda Honey’s first in an original Longreads series on dating as a black woman in these times. Here, she assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her romantic life.
When I was a little girl, I hid in church.
Deleting my tweets one at a time was an education in self-loathing and shame—and 100-percent worth it.
Pop singer? YouTube star? Cult Leader? Whoever she is, Poppy is here to take over the internet.
"I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”
Sharon Begley explores the behaviors we engage in to cope with unbearable anxiety.
The number of officers has continued to expand despite plateauing crime rates at universities.
Axed over the Christmas break, told to be out by lunchtime after 50 years' loyalty - this is redundancy in New Zealand, where there's no mandatory...
I know the ways in which I fail in the face of my beliefs, and yet I wish to consider myself forgiven once each year.
I went to Whisperlodge, which is billed as IRL ASMR, and ended up immersed in a kind of intimacy I wasn’t ready for. For more on this story, watch the new BuzzFeed News series "Follow This" on Netflix.
Navigating new fame and a new record, ‘Invasion of Privacy’, Cardi B is fighting to stay true to her Bronx roots while the world clamors for her to become a global superstar.
The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.
The blockchain is inspiring a new wave in underground partying everywhere from San Francisco to Moscow and Berlin
"You can’t do anything positive with your life unless you’re stabilized, and you can’t be stabilized on an empty stomach."
