The Spectacular Power of Big Lens
The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.
The Guardian
The Woman Who Turns Actors into Stars
A profile of casting director Nina Gold.
The Murder that Shook Iceland
How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.
Death in the Snow
In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?
The Cambridge Analytica Files: Meet the Data War Whistleblower
“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”
Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
The Fight for the Right to be Muslim in America
A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.
How a New Technology Is Changing the Lives of People Who Cannot Speak
The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.
The Scammers Gaming India’s Overcrowded Job Market
When a call center gig turns out to be something else.
The True Story of the Fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana
Last year, the U.S. state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral. It was wrong.
How the Sandwich Consumed Britain
The story of a national obsession.
Shades of Greene
On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”
Is It Too Late to Save the World?
The role of a writer in 2017.
One Drug Dealer, Two Corrupt Cops, and a Risky FBI Sting
Davon Mayer was a smalltime dealer in west Baltimore who made an illicit deal with local police. Then they turned on him.
The Scientists Persuading Terrorists to Spill Their Secrets
On the new art of interrogation.
The Boy Who Killed–And the Mother Who Tried to Stop Him
“When he’s judged I’m judged.”
The First Social Media Suicide
A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.
The Princess Myth
On Princess Diana of Wales.
What Makes Life Worth Living?
Apples, plastic bags, teeth. The author’s letter to his unborn child.
The School Beneath the Wave
Survivors of the 2011 Japanese tsunami in a small town on the north-east coast are haunted by a split second decision at a local school.
Protest and Persist
“The true impact of activism may not be felt for a generation. That alone is reason to fight.”
Unlearning the Myth of American Innocence
On coming to see your home country the way the rest of the world does.
Slaves of Isis: The Long Walk of the Yazidi Women
When Isis rounded up Yazidi women and girls in Iraq to use as slaves, the captives drew on their collective memory of past oppressions – and a powerful will to survive.
The Town Where Everyone Owns a Gun
Life in Nucla, Colorado.
Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?
Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.
