“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War
Steven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known.
Steven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known.
Gisela Pérez de Acha, Kathryn Hurd, Ellie Lightfoot ProPublica Apr 2021 20min Permalink
After 9/11, U.S. authorities used informants to secure hundreds of terror convictions. But did they help create plots where none existed?
Rozina Ali New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 30min Permalink
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
Ed Caesar New Yorker Apr 2021 40min Permalink
In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
Brendan I. Koerner The Atlantic Apr 2021 25min Permalink
How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.
Marc Wortman Vanity Fair Apr 2021 20min Permalink
He was a powerful executive at some of the best-known companies in the world. Then he started robbing banks. The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Steve Carroll, the high-flying corporate executive who wanted it all.
Jeff Gottlieb Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 Permalink
An investigation into the killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Engen Tham, Jacob Borg, Christoph Giesen, Stephen Grey Reuters Mar 2021 30min Permalink
After the success of her novel Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen spent years trying to prove a man’s innocence. Now she’s “absolutely broke” and “seriously ill,” and her next book is “years past deadline.”
Abbott Kahler The Marshall Project Mar 2021 35min Permalink
George Otto was a respected family physician with a bustling clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business.
Brett Popplewell Toronto Life Mar 2021 20min Permalink
“This is the story of those 10 days, the new and relentless strain of gun violence in America, and the desperate need for us not to look away.”
Michael Paterniti GQ Apr 2016 30min Permalink
For years, a tactical police unit in Mount Vernon, New York, reigned with impunity—protecting drug dealers, planting evidence, brutalizing citizens. Then one of its own started covertly documenting the abuse.
George Joseph Esquire Mar 2021 20min Permalink
Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.
Kimon de Greef Guernica Mar 2021 15min Permalink
She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.
Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 40min Permalink
Last summer, in a small Wisconsin city, the country’s fiercest differences collided in the streets—and a teenager named Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire, shooting three people. In the aftermath, a disquieting question loomed: Were these among the first shots in a new kind of civil war?
Doug Bock Clark GQ Mar 2021 35min Permalink
On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.
Elon Green The Appeal Mar 2021 40min Permalink
How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.
Leah Sottile High Country News Mar 2021 25min Permalink
How a police organization transitioned from a social club to an obstacle to reform.
Gino Fanelli The Rochester City Mar 2021 20min Permalink
With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.
Phil Hoad The Atavist Mar 2021 50min Permalink
Although femicide is a recognised crime in Mexico, when a woman disappears, the authorities are notoriously slow to act. But there is someone who will take on their case.
Meaghan Beatley Guardian Feb 2021 Permalink
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
Mick Dumke ProPublica Feb 2021 30min Permalink
On Feb. 19, 2020, a right-wing extremist murdered nine young people in Germany. Because the gunman shot himself, there will be no trial. But those left behind have questions for the country they call home.
Özlem Gezer, Timofey Neshitov Der Spiegel Feb 2021 45min Permalink
The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.
Lee Fang The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.
Joaquin Sapien, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Feb 2021 25min Permalink
Serial arson in rural Virginia: a love story.
Monica Hesse Washington Post Apr 2014 30min Permalink
As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.
Lise Olsen The Texas Observer Feb 2021 15min Permalink