The Quickening
A story of two births.
I Love You, Mr. Wonderful!
Seeing Hamilton with Barack Obama.
Mueller Was Listening to This Guy?
Sam Patten’s wild life as a cooperating witness.
Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car
Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.
The Message of Measles
Public-health officials are confronting dangerous ideas as much as a deadly disease.
The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King
Patrick Bryne’s tenure at Overstock.com was already on the rocks, due to an all in bet on blockchain technology, before he admitted that he had an affair with the Russian operative Maria Butina.
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.”
Cop Diary
On life as a police patrolman.
Originally published in 1997 under a pen name in The New Yorker. Appears now for the first time under the author’s known identity.
The New American Homeless
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.
Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?
How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.
The American Missionary and the Uncontacted Tribe
Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "History of Girls"
Dead and living girls communicate in the aftermath of a disaster.
Searching for Duke
After years of whispers in her Polish community, Anna finally learned the truth about her father. Then she went to Sri Lanka to find him.
Lady Kimora
The Baby Phat designer returns.
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade is a French documentary filmmaker. He directed Murder on a Sunday Morning and The Staircase.
“The courtroom in the United States is not really about the truth. It’s more about a story against another story. It’s more about storytelling. The more compelling or believable story by the jury will win. But in the end, we don’t know: is it the truth or not?”
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In the Straits: The Story of the Inmate Turned Millionaire Turned Lone Survivor
He was a convicted felon who found a niche in Seattle’s construction boom. As the region’s fortunes rose and fell—and rose again—so did his. Then a fatal boating accident came for Michael Powers’s fairy-tale ending.
Pet Project
Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?
Split Screen
The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam
Trouble in Paradise
Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.
The Cult of Columbine
How an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot.
The Barbaric History of Sugar in America
On the “white gold” that fueled slavery.
“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It
Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant.
Rami Malek, An Overnight Sensation 15 Years in the Making
How a journeyman actor became a star.
If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will
National developers are behind the proliferation of luxury apartments near college campuses, and they’re driving low-income students farther away.
Shattered Glass
At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.
