A profile of the film critic.

A year living in a shack in Oakland.

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.

“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.”

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand was stunned to silence. But only momentarily.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

A woman is accused of lying about being raped. Years later and several states away, the story changed.

A Instagram-caption ghostwriter speaks.

In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.

On the nature of coincidence.

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.

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.

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.