For more than a decade, the employees of a Washington think tank were traumatized by an unlikely harasser: a career Foreign Service officer. In hundreds of emails and voicemails, he called them “Arab American terrorist murderers” and ranted about how they should be cleansed. Yet there was almost nothing they could do.

Rethinking “the internet’s kindest place.”

Is Stephen Miller serious?

An investigation into the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency.

Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment.

A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.

The story behind an online gamer’s suicide.

The afterlife of a thoughtless, cruel insult.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

An author confronts her troll.

How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.

An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”

The story of a bizarre—and bizarrely effective—smear campaign.