Longform Best of 2018

Arthur and Kathleen Breitman thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell.

Inside the maze of an Amazon scam storefront empire.

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.

“All human relations are a matter of record, ready to be revealed by a clever algorithm. Everyone is a spidergram now.”

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.