When deep sea diver Dave Shaw reached the bottom of Bushman’s Hole, he discovered the body of Deon Dreyer. Though Dreyer had been gone for 10 years, Shaw was determined to bring him back.

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.

The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.

How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?

On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.

A profile of the (now former) director of the House of Dior, John Galliano.

When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became divided over what intellectual freedom on its campus really meant.

After watching his father Sandy abuse his paralyzed former-jockey mother for years, Mat Crichton committed murder. Nearly the entire local farming community rallied in support of him.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.

Why is an anti-virus software giant in the Belizean jungle surrounded by  gang members?

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.

A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.

On the downfall of Deutsche Bank.

The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.

The unintended consequences of cost cutting corporate decisions on display at a Tulsa Wal-Mart Supercenter.

“Missy (Misdemeanor) Elliott, the twenty-five-year-old hip-hop performer who is energetically redefining the boundaries of rap music, is a singer, a songwriter, an arranger, a producer, and a talent scout. Six months ago, few people outside the music industry had heard of her; six months from now, it will be necessary to pretend that you’ve known about Missy Elliott for years.”

They were an organized group of ex-strippers, plus a few role players recruited from Craigslist. They fished for marks in strip clubs, Wall Street cocktail bars, and even TGI Fridays, and then lured them to strip clubs. The marks woke up with little memory of the night before and their credit cards maxed out.