Written by David Kushner, Insider
February 4th, 2024
The rise and fall of America's fIashiest dealer in luxury watches
Written by David Kushner, Insider
September 17th, 2023
The incredible saga of the Henchmen brothers, hip-hop's forgotten moguls
Written by David Kushner, Insider
May 21st, 2023
Playing with Star Wars Lego bricks made them famous. Then a mysterious crime drove them apart.
Written by David Kushner, Insider
March 20th, 2022
The terrified father paid the ransom. Then he found his kid where he least expected her. Criminals are staging a devious new kind of kidnapping — and the FBI is stumped.
Written by David Kushner, Disruptor
November 12th, 2021
An All-American school cafeteria heist
Written by David Kushner, Disruptor
September 26th, 2021
Fantasy and murder at the world's biggest Renaissance festival.
Written by David Kushner, Vanity Fair
April 19th, 2019
How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel.
Written by David Kushner, Wired
March 25th, 2019
Synthetic Biology is making it easier than ever to produce life-saving vaccines - and life-taking viruses that humanity is not prepared to fight.
Written by David Kushner, Wired
July 26th, 2018
An epic riddle. An eccentric storyteller. A missing person. When a man vanishes in the wilderness, his family takes to the internet to find him.
Written by David Kushner, Esquire
May 1st, 2018
A bank glitch gave a 24-year old, down-on-his-luck Australian man access to unlimited funds. Then he did exactly what you think he did with it.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
June 29th, 2017
When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
August 10th, 2016
Joe Passalaqua claims "103 kills," but one judge described his elaborate tales as little more than "criminal fantasy"
Written by David Kushner, Foreign Policy
July 7th, 2016
Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?
Written by David Kushner, Foreign Policy
April 26th, 2016
To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
February 1st, 2016
Sexy, single and artificially-intelligent — fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond Ashley Madison