How Michael Manos, a.k.a. the Glam Scammer, a career con man who relied on a combination of fake reality TV shows and fake fundraisers to bilk people in Atlanta, Dallas, and D.C., finally got caught.
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” Six months after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a member of the Presidential ...
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
On creativity in the age of Trump.
When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalized capital.
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COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer ...
How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.
The material powers solar panels and microchips. In Alabama, two thieves cashed in.
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election.
A year after her ‘Hell,’ Olga Sharypova is ready to speak out.
The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?