Writing

 

Hush-Hush Affair

How the NDA became the defining legal document of our time.

The Empathy Punishment

A woman threw her burrito bowl at a Chipotle employee. A judge had an idea.

Raging Bill

What’s driving Bill Ackman’s revanchist campaign?

Who Killed Tulum?

Greed, gringos, shamans, seaweed, drugs, and a disco ball in the jungle.

The Watcher

A family bought their dream house. They weren’t the only ones interested.

The Battle of Fishkill

Domenic Broccoli didn’t expect to start a war. But sometimes you find a dead body.

Traylor Mania

My hometown is enjoying its time at the center of the universe.

Who’s Afraid of the Subway?

Riding every line in the days after the Sunset Park shooting.

The I in We

How did Adam Neumann build WeWork into a $47 billion company? Not by sharing.

Baldwins Against the World

The strange post-Rust life of Alec and Hilaria Baldwin.

What’s Left of Conde Nast

The glitzy magazine publisher’s future under Anna Wintour and a new CEO.

Reality Check

The documentary boom and a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.

Times Change

What does the future look like for the newspaper of record.

NBA 90210

A very strange kind of teenage fame at Sierra Canyon High School.

The Sandy Hook Hoax

Lenny Pozner believed in conspiracies. Until his son’s death became one.

The Spine Collector

A mysterious figure spent five years stealing book manuscripts before their release. Why?

The Talented Mr. Bernardini

A young Italian stands accused of the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he?

A Company Built on a Bluff

Vice Media was built on a bluff. What happens when it gets called?

Uber, But for Meltdowns

Travis Kalanick and his company face an existential crisis.

The Dirtbag Left’s Man in Syria

The story of PissPigGranddad, Twitter hero to radicals everywhere.

Bieber in the Suburbs

Why did Justin Bieber spend his summer in Montclair, New Jersey?

Scoop Dreams

How Shams Charania tweeted his way to the top of the NBA reporting world.

The Portnoy Playbook

Barstool Sports’ founder bets on the culture war.

Milk Money

The formula shortage was awful for parents—and a start-up opportunity.

Gray Hat

Does a hacker hero always have to have a past?

The Unicorn Broker

What if Compass is basically just like every other real-estate brokerage?

King of the South

How Paul Finebaum became the voice of college football.

Simone Biles

The greatest gymnast ever on the eve of her first Olympics.

Facebook’s College Reunion

Talking to Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard classmates 10 years after graduation.

The Gordie Howe Protocol

Did an experimental stem-cell treatment really save Gordie Howe?

Prom Queen of Instagram

Meet the most popular high school student in New York City.

The Bong Next Door

Ambling through American’s most stoned suburbs.

The Big Hack

Envisioning the cyberattack that could take down New York City.

The Rise of Athlete Activism

As American as refusing to stand for the National Anthem.

Genius

Can the brogrammers of Rap Genius annotate the world?

The Rockefellers vs. Exxon

Big Oil’s first family wants Exxon to come clean on climate change.

Bon Jovi Takes on the Bills

Why did Jon Bon Jovi became the most hated man in Buffalo?

Arrow Heads

The strange life of America’s Olympic archers.

Duke Lacrosse

How the Duke Lacrosse scandal presaged the rise of the alt-right.

A Summer on the AAU Circuit

A season in the high-stakes world of high school basketball.

Lucas Hedges

Breakfast with the actor on the brink of his big moment.

Richard Linklater

The director makes a movie about his first love—baseball.

Andrew Luck

Bouncing around Indianapolis with the Colts quarterback.

The Great Whiskey Heist

How a ring of employees stole some of the world’s most expensive bourbon.