Carlos Barragán’s reporting on young men in Nigeria who defrauded women over the internet illuminates a grim world of poverty and loneliness.

The Democratic National Committee was scammed out of tends of thousands of dollars.

Taxpayers will provide roughly $1.8 billion to the president and his allies—including January 6 insurrectionists.

Trump is turning the country into a huckster’s paradise. The next Democratic president will need to clean house.

Donald Trump’s newest scam stinks (literally) of desperation.

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

Stephen Miller has found a new excuse to ignore the Constitution.

Donald Trump has decided to save Nikola founder Trevor Milton.

With each passing day, this White House seems to have more in common with its crypto-scammer allies.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down for an interview with NPR, where she talked about her frustrations with the current moment.

The president is nobody’s idea of a technology expert, but thanks to his crypto broligarch pals, he has leveled up his grift.

New York's fakest lawmaker courted and created scandal, spoon-fed it to the media, and is now capitalizing off it. The story is as American as apple pie.

The new Netflix drama about fake heiress Anna Delvey has much in common with “Billions” and “Succession.”

The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.

A prolific seller of “all-natural” sexual enhancement pills was shut down by the FDA. So why can you still buy Stiff Nights all over the place?

In the absence of a coherent government response to the pandemic, the private sector has stepped into the void with new disinfecting tools, surveillance apps, and cardboard.

While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.

How Jia Tolentino’s incisive, capacious essays became essential reading.