“You probably don’t believe me, but I didn’t kill Harry.”

On billionaire financier Lynn Tilton and her quest to become a public figure.

This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.

Once a “folk hero,” Carson has become controversial. And his social conservative stances puzzle his former colleagues.

A profile of 25-year-old Lena Dunham, showrunner and star of HBO’s Girls.

Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.

High in the Karakoram, where the stubborn armies of India and Pakistan face off.

At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away. He had no plan. He had no tools. And he survived alone for 27 years.

Satoshi Nakamoto was the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Facing bankruptcy and jail, Craig Wright fled Australia knowing that he would soon be outed as Satoshi by multiple publications. Backed by a business group that hoped to sell his patents, Wright was due to show the proof that he possessed the original keys for Bitcoin, but did he?

What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

When it comes to representing pharmaceutical companies, a doctor’s medical record is far less important than his or her ability to sell.

Dave Goodhouse can’t really make a living anymore. But he can’t get out either.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

Many low-wage workers are confined to filthy bathrooms, can’t get breaks and even lose their jobs trying to pump.

In the 1880’s, a shabbily dressed man popped up in numerous America cities, calling upon local scientists, showing letters of introduction claiming he was a noted geologist or paleontologist, discussing both fields at a staggeringly accomplished level, and then making off with valuable books or cash loans.

There is an alternate definition for meat, one that simply means the thing inside of the thing—i.e., the meat of a coconut or the meat of a problem. My inquiry aimed to understand the living, the dead, and the part in the middle as well, the thing inside of the thing. I’m trying to tell you why I had finally resolved to taste whale.

A tenth of Kannapolis, North Carolina, residents were laid off after the local textile mill closed. A billionaire bought the mill and turned it into a mecca for biotechnology and life sciences research. Now many residents are human research subjects.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

“This is the story of Billy Conn, who won the girl he loved but lost the best fight ever.”

Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

He was the father of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a school of therapy that some would liken to scientific brainwashing), a guzzler of cocaine, and a highly paid lecturer with fabricated credentials. He was present when a young woman shot herself in Santa Cruz—but did he pull the trigger? A “parable for the New Age.”