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He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer, a AAA baseball legend, the founder of a seminal punk band. He's one of the more persistent and obsessive grifters to ply the streets of New York City—not to mention online dating sites—in recent decades.
Inside the color forecaster.
There are no analytics measuring success of color forecasting—how would one even accurately measure such a thing? To play it safe most companies rely on a range of color forecasts. Eiseman says Pantone’s effort, and perhaps color forecasting in general, suffers from two misconceptions. The first is that there is some kind of “evil cabal” that “schemes to get the colors out there.” The second is “let’s just throw a dart and wherever it lands is what’s going to be the hot color for next year.”
After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.
Helen Branswell is an infectious disease and global health reporter for STAT. She won this year's George Polk Award for Public Service for her coverage of the pandemic.
This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Abraham Josephine Riesman is a journalist who writes often for New York and is the author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. Her second book, Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, will be published in March.
“You’re sure that there’s a level of unreality, but you’re not sure that it’s all fake. There’s stuff there that seems either plausible or sometimes you go ‘there’s no way you could fake that.’ And sometimes you’re right, and a lot of times you’re somewhere in the middle. It’s not as easily distinguished as saying this is fact and this is fiction, this was scripted and this was improvised, whatever. You can’t make those distinctions easily, and one of the things I sort of hope comes out of the book—if it has any impact at all—is to try to get us past this false binary of true and false.”
The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.
Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
A conversation with the author of Calvin and Hobbes.
A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.
Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.
The author of I Know What You Did Last Summer investigates her own daughter’s unsolved murder.
Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.
A profile of reporter Jason Leopold, who has reinvented himself after journalistic scandal by becoming what he calls a “FOIA terrorist.”
A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.
On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.
How the self-proclaimed “inventor of all things streaming” went from dot-com millionaire to crime ring accomplice.
What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.
A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?
In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.
On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.
An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.
