Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?

10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands (2019)

Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world

The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US

10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018)

‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope

The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right

10 years of the long read: How the sandwich consumed Britain (2017)

‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade

How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won

10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)

Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China

The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?

10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)

The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?

‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breastfeed for so long

10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)

Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read

Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth

No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship