Allen Iverson, NBA icon, Struggles with Life after Basketball
“He has hit rock bottom, and he just hasn’t accepted it yet.” Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.
Brothers in Marathon Bombing Took Two Paths Into Infamy
A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
When Our Kids Own America
Why our old narratives about race and culture “just don’t fit anymore.”
The 'Queen of Cuba'
Ana Montes was a decorated U.S. intelligence analyst. She was also a Cuban spy.
Waking Up on the Wrong Side of a Ratings War
On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.
Mrs. Kelly's Monster
Edna Kelly’s brain goes under the knife.
This Bud's for You!
How to get high in America – legally.
John le Carré Has Not Mellowed With Age
A profile of the spy writer.
Thing of Beauty
The tragic life of 70s-era supermodel Gia Carangi.
Ann Friedman is a writer, editor and co-founder of Tomorrow.
"The notion of kissing up is super weird to me. You should always be kissing down and sideways, to the people who are going to be working alongside you and coming up behind you. I'm really aware of my impending irrelevance. ... I'm waiting for that day when I'm in dire need of work and 65 years old—because none of us are retiring, obviously—and I don't understand how to write on Google Glass or whatever we're composing on then. I want there to be some journalist who remembers when I got on the phone with her in 2013 and helped her negotiate for her first salary and throws me a fucking bone. I think about that moment a lot."</i>
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Pain & Gain
The story of Miami’s Sun Gym gang and the basis for the new film directed by Michael Bay.
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Part 1
They were local bodybuilders with a penchant for steroids, strippers, and quick cash. And they became expert in the use of a peculiar motivational tool: Torture.
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Part 2
Miami’s Sun Gym gang developed a taste for blood and money. The police could have stopped them before they killed somebody. But they didn’t.
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Part 3
A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami’s Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.
Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should)
On the renaissance in psychedelic research.
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How Jenna Lyons Transformed J. Crew Into A Cult Brand
“J.Crew employees reveal themselves by the nakedness of their ankles. It’s as if the company’s uniform, ambiently dictated by Lyons, is enforced only from the knees down.”
To Boston With Love
Tracing the Boston Marathon route via the people who live and work along its course.
2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists
Feature Writing, Investigative Reporting, Explanatory Reporting, National Reporting and Local Reporting — a full list of the winners and finalists announced today.
Meet The Kid In The Jackie Robinson Photo (Which Was Staged)
Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.
The Hell of American Day Care
On the barely regulated business of looking after kids.
The Martian Chroniclers
A new era in the search for life on Mars.
Lost in the Meritocracy
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Shane Carruth Will Have Another
A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.
I'm For Sale
On balancing creative ambition and financial security.
Resort of Last Resort
On an Indonesian town that serves both as stopping point for those seeking to reach Australia by boat and a hotspot for short term ‘contract marriage,’ which allows Saudi tourists a loophole to engage in Islamic-sanctioned prostitution.
David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly
A profile of the Van Halen frontman.
Refugees of the Modern World
Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).
