When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.

Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?

The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.

“He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’”

An interview with the founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died Monday.

Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.

“I always walk away from an interview — no matter how well it went — knowing that there’s so much that I don’t know about that person.”

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

Instead, they got scorched.

A slick-talking con artist turned an innocent brother and sister into his personal slaves.

On the ethics of putting the internet’s spotlight on a neighborhood restaurant.

He never saw it coming.

Was she the reason he was alive today?

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?

For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.

Inside the shadowy meetings between Chicago’s violent gang members and its elected officials.

The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.

A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.

Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.