If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.

A profile of reality-TV star Jax Taylor.

Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.

‘He likes people walking around in fear,’ says one worker. ‘He gets off on it.’

Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?

A profile.

A profile of the PR agent who blurs truth for clients like Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly. “If it were a relationship, we’d call it gaslighting, but it’s a profession, so we call it PR.”

Alex French and Maximillian Potter chased the story of a Hollywood pedophile ring only to have Esquire cancel it without explanation. It eventually landed at The Atlantic.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

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

A profile of Lorena Bobbitt.

The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.

Thinking about launching your own media startup? You might want to consider my crazy story first.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

On the art of the takedown.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

A profile of an influencer.

How lies become truth in online America.

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

“Yeah, okay, listen. It’s Sy Hersh. Who the f— do you think I am? Your f—ing wife? What do I look like to you? Your f—ing brother-in-law?”

How the magazine industry’s identity crisis is playing out on its front page.

A profile.

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.