An undercover report on Afghanistan’s drug-smuggling border police that is now heavily used for intelligence training.

“Every generation gets its own Keanu Reeves, except every generation’s Keanu Reeves is this Keanu Reeves.”

Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

What it’s like to work for, compete against, and find out you’re the biological father of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. An excerpt from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

Just after midnight, Rye police arrived to bust a house full of partying teenagers. The kids refused to unlock the door, and parents and cops flooded the street. A minute-by-minute account of the standoff.

The narcocorrido-immortalized Pacific coast traditionalists, the kidnap-crazed Gulf coast Zetas, and massacres that no longer seem tied to a discernible purpose; inside the ruins of the Mexican-American border.

Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.

“I took my son to Paris fashion week, and all I got was a profound understanding of who he is, what he wants to do with his life, and how it feels to watch a grown man stride down a runway wearing shaggy yellow Muppet pants.”

A profile.

Sarma Melngailis owned a booming vegan restaurant beloved by celebrities. But after systematically draining the company bank account, she and her husband skipped town. Last week, after nearly a year on the lam, they were arrested in a Fairfield Inn & Suites in Tennessee. The cops found them after they ordered Domino’s.

A day at the mall with the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

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

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

The author of The Junction Boys can’t tell you how many times he’s been arrested.

Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.

After 10 years of documenting memes, nobody has seen this much shit.

The anti-trust saga of Microsoft and Netscape.

An investigation into the aftermath of an allegation.

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch.

After sepsis forced the amputation of Sheila Advento’s hands, an intricate transplant technique made her whole again. Then came the side effects.

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”