Here are some of my favorite magazine and newspaper stories on money, politics, music, crime, writing, celebrity and a few other things:

Money
Philip Weiss: Masters of the Universe Go to Camp (Spy, 1989)
Ron Rosenbaum: The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (Esquire, 1977)
Jessica Pressler: Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry (New York, 2014)
Matt Levine: The Crypto Story (Businessweek, 2022)
Tom Wolfe: The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (Esquire, 1983)
Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Silicon Valley’s Gold Rush (Wired, 2014)
Alec MacGillis: Scandal at Clinton Inc. (New Republic, 2013)
Jessica Silver-Greenberg et al.: Epstein Hot List (New York Times, 2019)
Andrew O’Hagan: The Satoshi Affair (London Review of Books, 2016)
Zach Mider: The Greatest Tax Story Ever Told (Businessweek, 2014)
Jenny Odell: A Business With No End (New York Times Magazine, 2018)
James B. Stewart: The Birthday Party (New Yorker, 2008)
Karen Weise: The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 (Businessweek, 2015)
Paige Smith: Wall Street Makes Loans You Can’t Repay (Markets, 2023)
Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley (n+1, 2015)
Mathew Power: Mississippi Drift (Harpers, 2008)
Michael Greenberg: Tenants Under Siege (New York Review, 2017)
M.H. Miller: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me (Baffler, 2018)
Eli Saslow: Who’s Going to Take Care of These People (Post, 2019)

Politics
Joan Didion: Insider Baseball (New York Review of Books, 1988)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case for Reparations (Atlantic, 2014)
Renata Adler: Letter from Selma (New Yorker, 1965)
Ellen Willis: Escape from New York (Village Voice, 1981)
David Foster Wallace: Host (Atlantic, 2005)
Graeme Wood: What ISIS Really Wants (Atlantic, 2015)
John Sack: M (Esquire, 1966)
Mark Ames & Alex Zaitchik: The Killer Bag Lady (Salon, 2012)
Franklin Foer: Paul Manafort, American Hustler (Atlantic, 2018)
James Baldwin: Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White (Times, 1967)

Music
George Trow: Eclectic Reminiscent Amused Fickle Perverse (New Yorker, 1978)
Terry Castle: My Heroin Christmas (London Review of Books, 2003)
Bryan Di Salvatore: Ornery (New Yorker, 1990)
Nick Tosches: The Devil in George Jones (Texas Monthly, 1994)
Richard Ben Cramer: The Death of Mrs. Lee Lewis (Rolling Stone, 1984)
Caity Weaver: Justin Bieber Would Like to Reintroduce Himself (GQ, 2016)
Joe Garcia: Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison (New Yorker, 2023)
Philip Gourevitch: Mr. Brown (New Yorker, 2002)
Nat Hentoff: The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds (New Yorker, 1964)

Crime
Evan Ratliff: The Mastermind (Atavist, 2016)
Emily Bazelon: Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner? (NYT Magazine, 2021)
Adrian Chen: The Agency (New York Times, 2015)
John Gregory Dunne: The Humboldt Murders (New Yorker, 1997)
Joshuah Bearman: The Rise and Fall of Silk Road (Wired, 2015)
Michael Hall: The Murders at the Lake (Texas Monthly, 2014)
Francesca Mari: The Talented Mr. Khater (Texas Monthly, 2015)
Mark Danner: The Truth of El Mozote (New Yorker, 1993)
Janet Malcolm: Iphigenaia in Forest Hills (New Yorker, 2010)
David Grann: Trial by Fire (New Yorker, 2009)
Shane Bauer: Four Months as a Private Prison Guard (Mother Jones, 2016)

Writing
Tom Scocca: On Smarm (Gawker, 2013) 
Joseph Epstein: The Sins of Leon Wieseltier (Weekly Standard, 2017)
Larissa MacFarquhar: Robert Gottlieb’s Art of Editing (Paris Review, 1994)
Lillian Ross: How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? (New Yorker, 1950)
Lasantha Wickramatunga: Letter (Sunday Times, 2009)
Sarah Miller: The Movie Assassin (Popula, 2018)
Robert Kolker: Who Is the Bad Art Friend? (Times Magazine, 2021)

Celebrity
Ellen Barry: The Jungle Prince of Delhi (New York Times, 2019)
Michael Herr: Kubrick (Vanity Fair, 1999)
John McPhee: A Sense of Where You Are (New Yorker, 1965) 
Irina Aleksander: Lagerfeld’s Favorite Model (New York Times, 2015)
Norman Mailer: Married to Marilyn (New York Review of Books, 1973)
John Updike: Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (New Yorker, 1960)
Choire Sicha: Ina Garten Does It Herself (Eater, 2015)

More
Alice Gregory: L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Ourselves (New Yorker, 2024)
Peter Schjeldahl: The Art of Dying (New Yorker, 2019)
Rachel Cavell: Swallowing (Adelaide, 2019)
Anna Altman: Every Body Goes Haywire (n+1, 2016)  
William Styron: Darkness Visible (Vanity Fair, 1989)
John Jeremiah Sullivan: America’s Ancient Cave Art (Paris Review, 2011)
Gene Weingarten: Peekaboo Paradox (Washington Post, 2006)
Donald Barthelme: Saved From Drowning (New American Review, 1968)
Clickhole: Whatever It Takes (2016)

And more favorites, but not the journalistic kind, are here.