Todd Farley
The Archive
Colonel Sanders, 'Golden Girls' star and more icons who proved success can come late in life
“Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs” by Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg shares the tales of older people refusing to give up.
Meet the man who helped inspire the 'Call of Duty' craze
A new book explores how one Vietnamese immigrant inspired a generation.
Inside the high-stakes, death-defying world of scaling Mt. Everest
A new book explore the high-cost and high-stakes world that's developed around scaling Mt. Everest.
How four generations of Murdaugh brought murder and misery
No one would have predicted Alex Murdaugh would end up sentenced to life in prison — except maybe a Murdaugh being convicted of a crime was long overdue.
A mother fights for her son kidnapped by ISIS
Talk about a horror show. Diane Foley’s son was missing for nearly two years. Jim was a freelance journalist working the Middle East for organizations including Newsweek, CNN and PBS. ...
What happens when women are scorned...
A new book takes a look at women across the world who've been wronged by men
How Stanley Kubrick made — and almost made — the best films ever
A new book charts the remarkable career of Stanley Kubrick, one of America's most beloved filmmakers.
They fell in love at Auschwitz and survived — then they didn't see each other for 71 years
David Wisnia and Helen “Zippi” Tichauer went their separate ways at the end of the war and didn't see each other again until 2016.
How the Italian Mafia went global - new book details evolution of organized crime in Italy and US
The new book "Borgata: Rise of an Empire: The History of the Italian Mafia" details the evolution of organized crime in both Italy and the US.
No one would care for NY's tuberculosis patients — except these heroic women
Meet the "Black Angels."
These six materials have shaped modern civilization
“Without them, normal life as we know it would disintegrate,” writes the author of a new book.
Misfit: Stand-up comic Gary Gulman on his awkward 1980s childhood
Gary Gulman addresses his childhood humiliations in his new memoir.
The founder of High Times was wilder than Hunter S. Thompson
Of all the psychedelic era’s counterculture rabble-rousers, perhaps none was more outlandish than handle-bar-mustachioed, High Times founder Thomas King Forçade.
How Madonna and Tom Hanks stirred up trouble on 'A League of Their Own' set
According to the new book "No Crying in Baseball," Tom Hanks created a "Gossip Girl" scenario on the set of "A League of Their Own" and potty-mouthed Madonna led to...
Inside the Upper West Side cult that told members to sleep with anyone who asked
The Sullivanians were a community made up entirely of therapists and their patients, a group that espoused the value of analysis, communal living, and non-monogamy.
Inside infamous Nazi-era brothel Salon Kitty — and how hypocritical Third Reich leaders used sex workers
When the Nazis came calling in 1939, Kitty Schmidt wasn’t interested.
How probing death taught me more about life: A NYC medical investigator's story
Barbara Butcher came back to life by investigating death.
How companies like SpaceX transformed space travel into the Wild West
Traditionally, space was dominated by countries, the only entities with the personnel and wealth to spend years and money building rockets big enough to reach orbit.
Some of history’s smartest people were also the weirdest
Geniuses occupy plenty of space in our history books, but many of them were more than a little eccentric, as Katie Spalding reveals in “Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of...
Daughter completes dad's bucket list after her father is killed: 'I had to try'
In 2003, Laura Carney’s 54-year-old father Mickey was killed by a 17-year-old girl who was using her phone while driving. Laura began to advocate about the dangers of “distracted driving,”...