With The Apprentice, Trump rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of. Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

On the casting process for New York’s cult leader-like spin instructors.

A eulogy for a movement.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, one ill-fated cruise ship became a symbol for the panic and confusion that would soon engulf the globe. What two harrowing weeks trapped aboard the ocean liner felt like—for unsuspecting tourists, for frightened crew members, and for the captain himself.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

“He was untouchable, or he thought he was. But that era is over, for all those guys.”

“Way before Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the enigmatic blonde bombshell was famous for being famous, perpetually driving the streets of Hollywood in that pink Corvette. But her true identity has remained secret all these years … until now.”

The story of the “Barefoot Bandit,” a teenage fugitive on the run.

The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?

The author tracked down “the other” Alan – Alan Z. Feuer – for a story last year. After the other Alan’s death, however, the author learns the truth about the society man’s humble past.

A profile of Alan Adler, the guy behind the Aerobie and the beloved AeroPress.

The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.

For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”

A profile of Rick Santorum published early in his final campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to the White House before he lost.

For more than 50 years, world governments have trusted a single Swiss code-making machine company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers, and diplomats secret. It turns out that company was run by the CIA.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online.

A history of scandal and civil war within the first family of the Unification Church.

On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.

The rise and fall of Mickey the Pope, the founder of a New York City marijuana delivery business.

Reckoning with the legacy of the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster.

“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”