The hunt for rare 1933 Double Eagle coins:

The U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting the nation’s currency, has been pursuing them for nearly 70 years, through 13 Administrations and 12 different directors. The investigation has spanned three continents and involved some of the most famous coin collectors in the world, a confidential informant, a playboy king, and a sting operation at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. It has inspired two novels, two nonfiction books, and a television documentary. And much of it has centered around a coin dealer, dead since 1990, whose shop is still open in South Philadelphia, run by his 82-year-old daughter.

Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?

Where crazy things seem normal and normal things seem crazy.

How Texas Instruments monopolized math class.

Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.

In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.

An interview with the creator and star of “I May Destroy You.”

The llamas, the dress, and the day the internet broke.

What the author learned about himself from Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.

Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.

On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong tabloid tycoon, thinks he’s found the future of journalism: an animation assembly line that can crank out clips recreating–or anticipating, or imagining–breaking news.

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

Wayne Simmons was ideal conservative commentator. A former C.I.A. operative, he ate lunch with Donald Rumsfeld, took trips to Guantánamo aboard Air Force Two, and pumped the party line on Fox News. There was only one problem: Simmons had never been in the C.I.A.

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

The afterlife of a thoughtless, cruel insult.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

The Los Angeles surgeon who can double your size for $13,000.

A veteran magazine journalist changes jobs at 57.

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

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

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

The Bitcoin ghostwriter who wasn’t.

On nomadism, toxicity, and the question of home.