Fat Leonard's Great Escape

Plus: a London data center heist, darts' fiercest women, and life inside an ICE tent camp.

My Favorite Stories from Atavist Magazine

Incredible longform true stories from the masters.

Southland Books Owner Fights Tennessee Demon Claims

Plus: a Michigan couple's newborn died of untreated jaundice, what replaced fentanyl in Estonia, and why people dream of making things by hand.

Navy Sex Trafficking Scandal: Sailors, Prostitutes, and NCIS Stings in Bahrain

Plus: Monticello's quiet retreat from its interpretive mission, Ukrainian war widows on the mortal risk of love, and King George III's flawed legacy.

Inside the Proud Boys Clubhouse

Plus: how cartels and governments recruit identically, Holly Herndon believes AI can save art, and a DeepMind philosopher questions what AGI means for humanity.

LBR Picks: The Best of June 2026

The top stories that resonated with LBR readers in June

Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison. He didn't do it.

Plus: Florida's record-breaking execution spree, AI founders crammed into hacker houses, and what training a chaotic boxer reveals about power and control.

He bragged online about raping his daughter. None of it was true. He walked free.

Plus: America's founding argument at 250, the case against colonizing Mars, and Route 66 at 100.

The crime AI was wrong 9 times out of 10. Britain is rolling it out anyway.

Plus: the night the Guadalupe River became a tsunami, the family who traded Café Gratitude for a Texas cattle ranch, and the water law letting Oregon estates go lush while farmers go broke.

She drugged him for a week. Five other men died.

Plus: a Harvard lawyer's bizarre kidnapping scheme, a Toronto cop whose brother ran with the mob, and Byron Bay's decades-long cover-up.

Her baby died. The anti-vaxxers had an explanation before the autopsy did.

Plus: a week inside Thailand's most grueling fight gym, Darwin's messier Galápagos story, and one writer's AI boyfriend experiment.

A reclusive cult leader secretly ran Tulsi Gabbard's career.

Plus: a state trooper's double murder, Ukraine's drone-guiding spy network, and what history says about science under siege.

OnlyFans Managers Exploit Creators: Inside the Industry

Plus: a mother and son lost to two different mountains, the synthetic opioid flooding Ohio, and David Bowie's secret life on the Labyrinth set.

A lawyer vanished. The Rangers arrested the one man with no motive.

Plus: a mob enforcer's son in the boxing ring, the men who executed people for South Carolina, and a 31-year cold case cracked by amateurs.

A guard heard ripping sheets. She went back to sleep.

Plus: Mississippi prison suicides, a man who built a chatbot of his dead fiancee, and the light and noise slowly erasing animal life.

Trump Charity Scandal: $500,000 Diverted to Trump Hotels

Plus: adult children caring for abusive parents, Trump's health claims, and mah-jongg's ownership.

Indiana paid one clinic $340,000 a child. The kids watched movies.

Plus: a predatory doctor's dementia defense, Utah's yearlong measles outbreak, and the dead vultures that killed thousands in India.

Raw Farm: The Raw Milk Empire the FDA Couldn't Stop

Plus: inside Trump's Epstein war room, 1,100 new deep-sea species, and how Britain slipped below Mississippi.

She Asked to Be Arrested. Guards Watched Her Die

Plus: Andrew Tate's private tutorials on exploiting women, the Pentagon's war on Black officers, and the football billionaire who resigned hours too late.

Child Abuse Cover-Up in This Church Spans Generations

Plus: a Central Park chess rescue, the myth of traditional marriage, and slaughterhouse waste in a town's wells.

A Cocaine Smuggler Put His Daughters on the Run

Plus: a family's 56-year domestic slave, men who lie about their height, and leaked files exposing a fast-growing White supremacist group.

He Was Set to Go Free. He Died on a Jail Floor.

Plus: a political honeypot that gave a man PTSD, billionaire kids learning not to blow their inheritance, and the DNA math that makes your existence a miracle.

LBR Picks: The Best of May 2026

She booked the flights and arranged the cash for Jeffrey Epstein. Does she really know nothing?

Plus: three prize-winning stories that might be AI, Nicolas Cage explains himself, and the great artisanal cheese heist.

A 14-year-old paid $250 to make deepfake porn of his classmates

Plus: the only woman ever sworn into the yakuza, a Nevada mom jailed over a stillbirth Facebook post, and Trinity test downwinders finally compensated.