How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business
Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.
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An 18-Year-Old Girl Died From a Synthetic Opioid She Bought Online. Here’s How Portland Police Cracked the Case.
An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.
The Brothers Who Bought South Africa
Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.
The Big Bitcoin Heist
With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.
The Terror Queue
The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.
The Accusation
It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.
Michaela the Destroyer
How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.
The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime
Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?
Mike White Accepts the Criticism
A spoiler-filled interview with the creator of The White Lotus.
The Vertical Farm
Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.
How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
Taking the Veil
How France’s public schools became the battleground in a culture war.
The Gentle People
How incest and rape go unpunished in the Amish community.
The Billionaire and the Flood
How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.
The Yahoo With the Microphone
A visit to a Trump rally in Ohio.
The Handshake
Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?
The American Nightmare
More than 50 foreclosure stories have one word in common: Nightmare.
Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?
“We are invited to listen, but never to truly join the narrative, for to speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.”
The Man Who Sees Another Crash
Bob Rodriguez, the oracular mutual fund manager with the best record over the last quarter century and two correctly-predicted crashes under his belt, says another spectacular crash is on its way within five years.
"The kind of stories I've gotten to do have involved fulfilling my childhood fantasies of having an adventurous life."
We are re-airing our February 2013 interview with our friend Matt Power, who died while on assignment in Uganda, to help raise money for The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
Founded by Matt's friends and family, the annual award will support promising writers early in their careers with a stipend of $12,500 to bring forward an unreported story of importance in some overlooked corner of the world.
Meet the Shaggs
From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.
Bill Clinton in BubbaLand
At home, Arkansas’s favorite son can do no wrong.
In Hollywood
On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.
Life and Death in a Troubled Teen Boot Camp
A reckless billion-dollar industry that occasionally kills.
Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World
A year with an autistic 20-year-old.
