The Unbelievable Story of Threatin: Heavy Metal's Fyre Festival Moment
After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.
The Wrong Goodbye
The patient lasted just minutes after being taken off life support. By then it was too late.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Take It"
A homeless teen stumbles upon a strange house party.
My Life As A Minor League Baseball Clown
I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.
The House of Lost Souls
When a down-and-out doctor finds his rundown mansion is haunted, he pulls the quintessentially American move: opening the house to the public for a fee. Everything goes wrong from there
Ten Years Ago, I Called Out David Letterman. This Month, We Sat Down to Talk.
“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas
A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.
Ashley Feinberg is a senior writer at Slate. She recently uncovered Mitt Romney's secret Twitter account.
“The whole thing about politics is that they are basically creating this character, this mask, and that is who they are supposed to be. That is who they try to project to the world. We know that it’s not really them but we have no access to what they actually are. This is the closest we get to seeing what they’re doing when they think no one is watching. … This is the most unfiltered access to what they’re actually thinking.”
The Adults in the Room
“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Why Do People Hate Vegans?
“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”
Hysteria High
How demons destroyed a Florida school.
Marathon Man
Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?
The Burn List
The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.
'This Should Be a Wake-up Call to the Whole World'
Inside the Hong Kong protests.
Bank of the Underworld
On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.
What’s Left of Condé Nast
The twilight of a magazine empire.
The Zombie Campaign
Inside the campaign of Joe Biden, “the least formidable front-runner ever.”
‘We Have Fire Everywhere’
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.
How Brexit Will End
Until recently, it was possible to believe that there was a middle way, or to be in denial that a decisive moment would come. That’s no longer the case.
Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.
Paradise Lost
Last October, Super Typhoon Yutu wreaked havoc on Saipan. Today, residents still struggle—and no one feels it more than the kids.
How Facebook Bought a Police Force
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.
Dropshipping Journalism
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Girl Gangs of Pacific Avenue"
A girl gang rules over a neighborhood.
The Great American Press Release
A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.
