About a decade ago, crashes involving 18-wheelers began to spike on a 14-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in New Orleans. When insurance adjusters examined the roadway where the crashes were happening, there were no obvious hazards. Stranger still, the cars in the crashes were almost always full of passengers. The likelihood of all this happening in one contained geographic area was one in 750 trillion. In this week’s issue, Patrick Radden Keefe reports on a vast insurance fraud in New Orleans. Read it here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/the-...