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Writers

Raffi Khatchadourian

Science

The Elusive Peril of Space Junk

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article Food

The Taste Makers

Where does Strawberry-Kiwi Snapple come from? Givaudan is part of a tiny, secretive industry that produces new flavors.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Nov 2009 40min Permalink

Arts

N.K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds

How the bestselling sci-fi author builds her stories.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Jan 2020 25min Permalink

Tech

The Burn List

The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country

A series of conversations with the WikiLeaks founder about his role in the 2016 presidential election.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Aug 2017 1h30min Permalink

Arts

Alternate Endings

Will interactive films be this century’s defining art form?

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Jan 2017 30min Permalink

Arts Science

The Long View

A photographer’s quest to document a changing planet from above.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Dec 2016 40min Permalink

Science

The Doomsday Invention

Will artificial intelligence bring utopia or destruction?

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Nov 2015 50min Permalink

Science

A Star in a Bottle

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Mar 2014 1h Permalink

Operation Delirium

The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Dec 2012 1h Permalink

Best Article Science

Transfiguration

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Feb 2012 Permalink

Science

The Gulf War

On BP’s actions after the oil spill.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Mar 2011 1h10min Permalink

Best Article

Kill Company

The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Aug 2009 1h Permalink

No Secrets

The justly paranoid man behind WikiLeaks.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Jun 2010 40min Permalink