When Muhammad Ali Was a Has-Been
Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Thinking Like a Dolphin
The question for researchers isn’t “How smart are dolphins?” It’s “How are dolphins smart?”
A Thief Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In
For Gangaram Mahes, Rikers Island was the only chance for three squares and a “decent life.” So Mahes committed the same crime 31 straight times: refusing to pay the check at New York City restaurants.
My Mother's Killer
She was last seen leaving a pickup bar, her body was found the next morning in the dirt beside a football field. He was ten. Thirty-six years later, the author investigates his mother’s murder.
Get Gronk’d!
All aboard the maiden voyage Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise.
A Trial By Fire
In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?
Nature’s Most Perfect Killing Machine
How the Ebola virus works.
Dark Alliance
A three-part investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s CIA-backed Contra rebels, and California’s crack epidemic in the 1980s.
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Part One
Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in the early 1980s to help finance war – and a plague was born.
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Part Two
How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and an ambitious teenager created the cocaine pipeline.
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Part Three
The impact of the crack epidemic.
Punk Rock Fight Club
Inside FSU, the hardcore brotherhood where the wrong t-shirt can get you killed.
Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo — And Then to Iraq
On working in a war zone to pay the bills.
A Signature Moment
Thirty-one years ago, Joy Hunley’s daughter was adopted. At least that’s what the paperwork says.
Vince Staples, Regular Genius
The 22-year-old rapper on escaping North Long Beach and his desire to be a “regular” guy.
Rise and Scam
Joanne the Scammer has celebrity fans and a massive YouTube following. Branden Miller barely leaves his Daytona Beach apartment.
Like I Was Jesus
The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.
Interview with US Defense Attorney Turned Tijuana Narcojunior
An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.
A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes
In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”
An Unthinkably Modern Miracle
The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.
These Beats Work
On the producer Timbaland, then best known for collaborations with Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, and Ginuwine.
"I Definitely Identify With That Murderer Thing, Where You Click Off"
On the controversial British newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins.
El Chapo Speaks
A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.
How David Gregory Lost His Job
The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”
What Went Wrong?
How an up-and-coming Boston surgeon became best known for leaving a patient on the operating table while he skipped out to cash a check.
What's In a Name?
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
China’s Arranged Remarriages
Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.
Since Dick Cheney Shot Him
What happened next for Harry Whittington, the guy Cheney shot in the face? Not an apology.
