The Battle of Grace Church
What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.
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Cain and Abel and Oil
Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up an $800 million Louisiana family dynasty.
Hideous Men
Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.
Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood
A profile of the long-shot presidential candidate.
The I in We
How Adam Neumann turned WeWork into a $47 billion business.
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How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?
“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.
The Single-Mom Murder
She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.
Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End.
A bulletin from our climate future.
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence
What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?
The Invention of the ‘Salvator Mundi’
In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.
What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?
The paper spiked a #MeToo story. Why?
Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of Fashion
A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.
The Five Families of Feces
On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.
Who Was Lil Tay
The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.
A Precocious Puberty Case
I went through puberty at age 2.
Children of Ted
Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.
Can Special Effects Be Special Again?
How the VFX industry plateaued —and where it might go from here.
The Watcher
The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.
Everyone Believed Larry Nassar
The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?
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.
David Hogg, After Parkland
On trying to figure out what’s next.
Leader of the Persistence
A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.
The Most Important Video Game on the Planet
How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.
The Attempted Remaking of Michael Grimm
On the trail with the convicted felon and would-be Mini Trump.
