Remembering George Plimpton’s old-fashioned style.
Above all, he was a gentleman, one of the last—a figure so archaic, it could be easily mistaken for something else. No, my father’s voice was not an act, something chosen or practiced in front of mirrors: he came from a different world, where people talked differently, and about different things; where certain things were discussed, and certain things were not—and his voice simply reflected this.
A profile of Doc Johnson, “the Procter & Gamble of sex toys.”
An early investigation into Jim Jones’ cult.
On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.
Inside the increasingly hostile global warming debate.
The case against Richard Florida.
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One night in Newark with Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen.
“No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!” he screams over the noise of the crowd, and then screams it again, to make sure I understand: “No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!”
Meet Dr. Schnoz, the nose-sculpting YouTube king of Miami.
A profile of Ann Coulter, “the glowing scimitar of the American right.”
How a Harvard-educated neurologist, a courtly southern gentlemen, and a Hollywood rent boy ended up at the center of an international manhunt that spread from the staid business community of Columbus, Ohio to the coffee shops of Amsterdam.
The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.
“My mother became my daughter when I was nine years old.”
Americans learn to love themselves.
A three-part investigation into New Jersey’s halfway house system.
The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.
Vindication for an awkward art.
How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.
A profile of Fiona Apple.
On a child born during the L.A. riots, and South Central a decade later.
On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.
Visiting his daughter in San Francisco, the author longs for food delivery in Manhattan.
Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.
The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.
The people behind San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
Perpetually reinvented through experimental chemistry, manufactured in Asian mills, packaged in foil with names like White Slut Concentrated and Charley Sheene for use as “hookah cleaner,” distributed in college town head shops, snorted and injected by hardened addicts and high school thrill seekers alike, bath salts may be the strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack. And they’re (quasi) legal.
