Category: The New Yorker

A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks.

The writer composed his own epitaph. Did it have a secret satirical intent?

After living freely in Dubai for a decade, the notorious Irish drug dealer has finally been arrested, and is likely to be sent back to Dublin to stand trial.

Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?

An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.

Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon.

“Hypercars” can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation.

An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in Dubai.

Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time.

He leads a manic, exhausting life – but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended.