I Spent a Month Living In A Romanian Sexcam Studio
Life on the other side of the laptop.
La Gran Fuga
The story of Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez’s flight from Cuba.
Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.
State of Deception
Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.
Whose Sarin?
Did the Obama Administration ignore evidence that someone other than Assad could be behind the sarin attacks?
The Other Side of the Story
“When I was fourteen, I had a relationship with my eighth grade history teacher. People called me a victim. They called him a villain. But it’s more complicated than that.”
The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
The twisting paths that brought together Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.
Generation June
Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.
The Vigilante of Clallam County
Why one man made it his mission to kill 60 known sex offenders.
The Ghostwriting Business
The incentives for and ethics of writing other people’s books.
Sex, Lies and HIV
On the criminalization of nondisclosure.
23 and You
On recreational genetics, privacy and the new vulnerability of family secrets.
On Smarm
In defense of snark.
A Lost Boy Grows Up
The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.
The Death Dealer
In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.
Jason Fagone, a contributing editor at Wired and a writer-at-large for Philadelphia, is the author of Ingenious.
"It seemed like all the big guys in American society had let us down, all the elites. And here was a contest that was explicitly looking to the little guy and saying, 'We don't care what you've done before or how much money you have in your pocket. If you solve this problem, you win the money.' There was something so optimistic and hopeful and cool about that to me."
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Susan Cox Is No Longer Here
One woman’s beautiful, strange, and troubling final days.
All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.
A Death at Tough Mudder
A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.
Capital STEEZ: King Capital
On the sudden death of an up-and-coming rapper.
A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes
In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”
Never Forget
Visiting Cambodia, and a Khmer Rouge prison camp, 30 years after the genocide.
Chasing A-Rod
The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”
The Passion of Dan Choi
He was the poster boy for the movement to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Now Dan Choi is sleeping on a couch, smoking too much weed, watching TED talks and wondering what he’ll do with the rest of his life.
The Big Sleep
On Ambien and the search for the next blockbuster insomnia drug.
