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Ed Caesar

Crime Tech World

The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

Ed Caesar New Yorker Apr 2021 40min Permalink

Travel

A Pilot's Son Takes Flight

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

Ed Caesar New Yorker Oct 2020 Permalink

Tech World

The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

Ed Caesar New Yorker Jul 2020 30min Permalink

Business

The Woman Shaking Up The Diamond Industry

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Ed Caesar The New Yorker Jan 2020 40min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Undercover Fascist

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink

History World

The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

Ed Caesar The New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 35min Permalink

World Media

The Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation

A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

Ed Caesar New Yorker Jun 2018 35min Permalink

Sports

Can the Greatest Darts Player of All Time Step Away from the Game that Made Him?

A legend hangs on.

Ed Caesar The Guardian Apr 2015 25min Permalink

Crime

Do We Not Bleed? - Inside the Stephen Lawrence Trial

In 1993 a black teenager in London was randomly stabbed to death by a gang of white youths. Twenty years later, they would be at the center of the trial of the decade.

Ed Caesar GQ UK May 2012 35min Permalink

House of Secrets

On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.

Ed Caesar New Yorker Jun 2015 30min Permalink

World

Hell Is Other People

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

Ed Caesar GQ (UK) May 2014 20min Permalink

Arts Crime

What Is the Value of Stolen Art?

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

Ed Caesar New York Times Magazine Nov 2013 20min Permalink

Media

Shooting the Messengers

Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?

Ed Caesar British GQ Jul 2013 20min Permalink

World

Tehran Nights

Published on the eve of Iran’s 2009 presidential election and subsequent protests, a look at the booze-fueled, hijab-less underground party scene in the capital.

Ed Caesar GQ (UK) Jun 2009 Permalink

World

Congo: The Horror

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

Ed Caesar GQ Jan 2010 15min Permalink