The Top 10 Esquire Stories of the Year

From art heists to Bruce Springsteen to cruise ship performers, here are our favorite stories we published in 2018. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.     The Top 10 Esquire Stories of 2018 From art heists to Bruce Springsteen to cruise ship performers, here are our favorite stories we published this year.         Devin Nunes's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret   Rep. Devin Nunes is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trump's biggest defenders. For years, he's spun himself as a straight talker whose no-BS values are rooted in his family's California dairy farm. So why did his parents and brother cover their tracks after quietly moving the farm to Iowa? Are they hiding something politically explosive? On the ground in Iowa, Esquire searched for the truth—and discovered a lot of paranoia and hypocrisy.   By Ryan Lizza         Summer 2018 Is the Summer of Sleaze   Here's how looking like a teenage weed dealer became a whole thing.   By Jonathan Evans         When the Power Went Out in Puerto Rico   Nothing slows down, not even World Central Kitchen. Not when there are communities to feed.   By Sarah Rense         The Great Rikers Island Art Heist   For forty years, an original Salvador Dalí painting went unnoticed inside New York City's massive jail complex. Then a gang of thieves decided it might be worth something.   By James Fanelli         The Nation Is Beginning to Realize the Full Extent of What It Did to Itself in November 2016   The country's head is clearing. The spell of the reality show presidency* is wearing off.   By Charles P. Pierce         Beneath the Surface of Bruce Springsteen   For more than fifty years, he's traveled deep into the heart of America. But with his new Netflix special—a film of his intense, powerful one-man show on Broadway—Bruce Springsteen reveals that his bravest journey has been wrestling with his own mental health.   By Michael Hainey         The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis   You're aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You've heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family?   By Christopher Glazek         Chardon, Ohio   The people of this tiny town have had six years to reflect on what a seventeen-year-old boy with a gun did, and how this terrible act has affected them.   By Libby Copeland         Inside the Delightfully Quirky, Absolutely Fabulous, and Utterly Exhausting World of Cruise Performers   Welcome to the new vaudeville circuit, where live entertainment hasn't died—it's just gone to sea.   By Logan Hill         The Delay   After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them?   By Rachel Monroe         Unsubscribe •  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2018 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019