Mark Bowden

Friday, March 16
/ / Apr 2012

How Don Johnson won $15 million playing blackjack over a four-month period.


Friday, November 11
/ / Dec 2011

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.


Wednesday, September 28
/ / Feb 2009

A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.


Tuesday, August 30
/ / Dec 2004

In 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and held the entire American diplomatic mission hostage for fifteen months. Twenty-five years later, the students reflected on their actions, many with regret.


Friday, December 31
/ / Mar 2007

A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.


Wednesday, December 1
/ / Dec 2009

The cop says she nabbed an online sexual predator. He says he was just willing to chat whatever it took to get laid in real life. Their story, from both perspectives.


Monday, November 22
/ / Dec 2010
via via @morosepoet

“From the start, it was a bad case.

A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia butts up against the high grass and black mud of the Everglades.”


Wednesday, September 15
/ / Sep 2010

A profile of Joe Biden, whose political stock has continued to rise even as his boss’s falls.


Friday, July 2
/ / May 2002

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.


Monday, May 17
/ / May 2010

The Conficker ‘worm’ has replicated itself across tens of millions of computers. Only a few hundred people have the knowledge to recreate how, and no one (except its anonymous maker) fully understands why.


Thursday, April 22
/ / May 2010
via via B. Curry

David Petraeus, father of the surge and the uncontested “most competitive” man in the military.