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The writer leaps into the abyss of pay-for-protest audiences, faux cheerleaders and pretend paparazzi -- and embraces the chaos

The New Yorker writer talks about a police department awash in machismo and parents who are told their home is in a "kill zone"

"My best stories attempt to answer an almost psychoanalytic need to address the larger, more philosophic questions about life"

The writer talks about the challenge of re-creating someone who is dead -- and who even in life was unknowable

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions. Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent…

For many of his 30-plus years in the journalism business, Jesse Katz has been covering crime. Back in the early 1990s, his former employer The Los Angeles Times assigned him…

The historian and New Yorker writer on breaking her rule against writing personal essays and why journalists must use history with caution

In August 2014 Antonio Regalado introduced an almost heretical approach to cancer treatment to the wider world in a feature he wrote for MIT Technology Review. Regalado, the senior biomedicine…

Sarah Schweitzer has spent almost two decades honing her narrative instincts at The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. In April 2015 she was acknowledged by the Pulitzer Prize…

Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer launched “Criminal” in 2014, with producer Eric Mennel. Judge and Spohrer had worked together on “The Story” with Dick Gordon, a public radio program that went…