Longform

“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”

How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.

Scientology’s stronghold on Tom Cruise’s dating life.

A master troll on trial in New Jersey.

As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

Sex in the Olympic Village.

Hanging out with Barack Obama.

The strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack.

How child molesters get away with it.

The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.