The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain.
Safe House
A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.
Trouble in Lakewood
How a once idyllic postwar town fell under the sway of a teen-age gang.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dead Weight"
The lives of a mortician mother and a wayward veteran stepfather.
The Loneliest Democrat in America
On the campaign trail in the most Republican congressional district in America.
The Morality Wars
Should art be a battleground for social justice?
The Snakehead
Working from a tiny shop in Chinatown, Sister Ping brought in thousands of Chinese immigrants by boat, bringing in over $40 million. Then one of her ships ran aground.
Rebecca Traister writes for New York. Her new book is Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger.
“I don’t want my experience to be held up as so, ladies, your new health regimen is rage all day. Because the fact is we live in a world that does punish women for expressing their anger, that denies them jobs, that attaches to them bad reputations as difficult-to-work-with, crazy bitches. Because they’re reasonably angry about something they have every reason to be angry about. We live in a world in which black women’s anger is either caricatured and they get written off as cartoons, or regarded as threats and face steep, often physical penalties for expressing dissent or dissatisfaction. When I talk about this, I don’t mean it to be prescriptive, I mean it to be descriptive of a particular experience I had that was extraordinarily unusual but which made me question a premise that I think all of us internalize that the anger is bad for us. I no longer believe that that’s true.”
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Why Did No One Save Gabriel?
He was 8 years old, and the signs of abuse were obvious. Yet time and again, caseworkers from child-protective services failed to help him.
Searching for Nothing
What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
The President received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
The Ballpark that Never Was
Things might have been very different for the Chicago White Sox
Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret
Paranoia and hypocrisy in America’s heartland.
Finished
Lessons from the last Swiss finishing school.
The Bad, Good Lawyer
David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.
He Won $19 Million in the Lottery—And Became a Bank Robber
How Jim Hayes blew it all.
The Movie Assassin
On growing up, writing, and succumbing to bullshit.
John Urschel Goes Pro
How a professional football player became a top-flight mathematician.
The Squid Hunter
An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.
How Robyn Transformed Pop
A profile.
A Blind Man's Trip Will Change the Way You Think About Safaris
A visually impaired traveler journeys through the wilds of Zimbabwe and discovers a side of the safari experience that very few know.
Insider Trading’s Odd Couple: The Goldman Banker and the NFL Linebacker
Damilare Sonoiki and Mychal Kendricks made a very bad team.
The Great Mortality
On plagues, parasitic mind control, and magical thinking.
Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile
On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "North Country, Early Morning"
Lost love and a robbery.
