My Grandma the Poisoner
What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop eating meals at her house.
Longform Best of 2014
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The Islamic Sex Cult Supporting Turkey's Prime Minister
Followers of Harun Yahya wear drag make-up and practice a “sexed-up, Disney version of Islam.” They also help promote conservative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s vision of a modern, Muslim Turkey.
The Down and Dirty History of TMZ
How a lawyer from the Valley created a gossip empire.
Gravy Boat: My Week on the High Seas With Paula Deen and Friends
“Everyone on the boat is racist and nice. Including me.”
50 Cent Is My Life Coach
Making vision boards with rap’s strangest fallen star.
Club Meds
A trip to The Villages, a booming retiremement community outside Orlando, where the golf is free, casual sex is everywhere, and there is no cemetery.
Miss American Dream
Britney Spears works Vegas.
A Speck in the Sea
John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?
How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star
Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.
Shame and Survival
What it’s like to be the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.
