Profiles

Longform portraits of people — athletes, artists, criminals, survivors — whose stories reveal something larger about the world.

Mark Zuckerberg wanted AI to replace his staff. It started breaking things instead.

Plus: Dolly Parton's legacy, Justin Trudeau's romance with Katy Perry, and a musician's memoir in song.

Aug 26, 2026

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2 min read

The compound looked like a call center. Workers who tried to leave were electrocuted.

Plus: Montreal's bus-pulling giant, gun violence destroying families, and a trans CIA officer who briefed Pence.

Aug 17, 2026

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3 min read

He was in line to run the Seahawks. Then came the crossbow killing.

Plus: a golf-club manager's $14.7M Reflecting Pool disaster, a bomb plot in Poland that may have been Ukrainian, and a $533M artillery factory that made nothing.

Aug 13, 2026

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3 min read

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Plus: a phone sex operator on the sexual psychology of the right, the couple who saved China's oldest temples, and the biologist who traded God for a wolverine.

Jul 28, 2026

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2 min read

Virginia Giuffre's Brother Continues Her Fight for Justice

Plus: an Idaho teen lost to anti-trans laws, a Texan's fatal stand in Ukraine, and the chemist who forced food safety into law.

Jul 22, 2026

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2 min read

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.

Jun 25, 2026

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3 min read

What Your Body Data is Worth to Meta

Plus: the Boeing 747's last flight to a desert boneyard, the end of humanity, and Nashville's accidental street historian.

Jun 12, 2026

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2 min read

As They Gut 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley Speaks Out

Plus: why measuring Earth's exact shape rewired science, Texas's first family of balloon racing, and the worms that suddenly forgot how to learn.

Jun 8, 2026

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2 min read

Ben Sasse thought he hurt his back training. It was pancreatic cancer.

Plus: China's AI frenzy is fear wearing optimism's clothes, the privacy consultant who lives like he's in witness protection, and the AI actress nobody asked for.

Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

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.

May 28, 2026

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2 min read

He bombed a nuclear power station and rode out on his bicycle.

Plus: Elizabeth Strout's 11th novel, an American tween on the edge of everything, and why Little Debbie matters.

May 5, 2026

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7 min read

Saving lost young men with chop saws

Plus: the OceanGate disaster, how medieval art trained us to see Black bodies as dangerous, and Bob Odenkirk on comedy and parenthood.

Apr 27, 2026

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6 min read

What Happened to Mariupol's 60 Missing Orphans

Plus: the Sims creator's decade-long quest to map the human psyche, the Penn State hazing death that could have been stopped, and two 58-year-olds training for Everest.

Apr 16, 2026

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6 min read

Profiles

Mark Zuckerberg wanted AI to replace his staff. It started breaking things instead.

The compound looked like a call center. Workers who tried to leave were electrocuted.

He was in line to run the Seahawks. Then came the crossbow killing.

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Virginia Giuffre's Brother Continues Her Fight for Justice

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

What Your Body Data is Worth to Meta

As They Gut 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley Speaks Out

Ben Sasse thought he hurt his back training. It was pancreatic cancer.

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

He bombed a nuclear power station and rode out on his bicycle.

Saving lost young men with chop saws

What Happened to Mariupol's 60 Missing Orphans

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