Featuring beautiful illustrations, original photography, and engaging interactives, our Longform program invites readers to explore the spectrum of the subjects The Verge covers — tech, science, culture and transportation — in unbridled depth. Whether it’s a personal essay, a years-in-the-making investigation, or gripping narrative-driven feature, every piece in the Longform program is an opportunity to get the full story.
Faraday Future’s still haunted by the past of its billionaire founder
Can an electric car startup save itself from its founder?
The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max
How the Boeing 737 Max betrayed its pilots and passengers
How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities
Front Porch Forum’s secret? Staying local
How a nuclear stalemate left radioactive waste stranded on a California beach
Nuclear waste is all dressed up with nowhere to go
The unlikely story of a meteorite hunter who became a fugitive from the law
The rock that fell to Earth
I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t
Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you’re going to have to start doing a lot of work
When whisper networks let us down
How communities struggle — and sometimes fail — to stop sexual assault
Ghost in the cell
How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down
How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
Inside the portable battery pack giant
Massive attack: How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web
How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web
The Future Agency: Inside the big business of imagining the future
“Every act of future making is an act of future taking."
Legal threats and disgruntled clients: inside the ‘Uber for private jets’
How JetSmarter puts fear into its millionaire customers
Can Genius beat the rap?
Genius quietly laid off a bunch of its engineers — now can it survive as a media company?
The empathy layer
Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet?
DeRay Mckesson on Black Lives Matter and building tools for digital activism
One of the Black Lives Matter movement’s most prominent voices is 31-year-old DeRay Mckesson. With his now-iconic blue vest, Mckesson, now the interim chief of Human Capital for Baltimore City Public Schools, has balanced using his platform online and off in order to draw attention to matters such as public safety and law enforcement reform.