She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

How David Milch, the creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, blew his $100 million fortune at the track.

An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.

The truth and consequences of reporting from a war zone.

How the tapping of Angola’s natural resources has kept the country a killing field, and made it one of the world’s most glaringly inefficient kleptocracies.