When your family is murdered, and the home you had made together is destroyed, and you yourself are beaten and left for dead — as happened to Bill Petit on the morning of July 23, 2007 — it may as well be the end of the world. It is hard to see how a man survives the end of the world. The basics of life — waking up, walking, talking — become alien tasks, and almost impossibly heavy, as you are more dead than alive. Just how does a man go about surviving such a thing? How does a man go on?

The best women’s tennis player of all-time opens up.

On the murder of a young Hasidic boy in Brooklyn.

Nicky Louie and the Ghost Shadows.

A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

The first piece of gonzo journalism, annotated.

Live from the World Series of Poker.

A trip to the Iditarod.

On the influencer moms of Byron Bay.

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

On the origin of the essay.

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

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 inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border—and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.

He’d sold his company, chartered a yacht, and set off with his model girlfriend to see the world. Finally, it seemed, Chris Smith was living the life he’d always wanted. But back home there was trouble: missing money, unraveling secrets, and a sudden question. Where the hell was Chris Smith, really?

A full-issue length, 42,000-word history of the dissolution of the Middle East, from the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago until present.

“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.”