At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.
The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.
On the true backstory of Meghan Markle, a.k.a. the Duchess of Sussex.
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.
The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.
When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution.
Pope Benedict XVI’s post-retirement presence in the Vatican has set the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church into two.
Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.
An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
“For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent. For me, it was the opposite.”
Life as Steve Jobs's daughter when he denied being your dad.
A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.
In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, has some regrets.
How the women of U.S. Gymnastics found their voice.
“As an added bonus, she paid for everything.”
A profile of then-First Lady Barbara Bush, published just before the 1992 presidential election. The lede: “Even Barbara Bush’s stepmother is afraid of her.”
Pitcairn Island is impossibly remote, populated by descendants of a ship of British mutineers. Their population would not be revealed to the outside world until allegations of a culture of child molestation and rape that led back generations.
Inside the worst U.S. maritime disaster in decades.
The playwright’s forgotten son.
On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.
When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went undercover, testing her sanity, her marriage, and the justice system.
Twenty years later, the author looks back.
The many identities of Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace’s murderer.
When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.
