In a dark echo of Rear Window, a wheelchair-bound hacker seizes control of hundreds of webcams, most of them aimed at young women’s beds.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

The excerpts from a diary of an anonymous Russian special-forces officer who served twenty tours of duty in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War (1999-2009).

Sean Spicer and a new era in the briefing room.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.

Two summers spent teaching and living in the hills of Tennessee.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

A profile of a 51-year-old preparing himself for the inevitable.

A profile of organizational psychologist Adam Grant, who argues that the key to success comes from helping others.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.

Visiting Disney World during times of loss and sorrow.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

The particular sheen of America by Amtrak.

How Service Corporation International corporatized death, driving growth through everything from aggresive acquisitions, volume pricing on caskets and embalming fluid, a “strong flu season,” and pre-selling over $7.5 billion worth of burials.

Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.

But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.

An immigrant on what happens when neighbors turn on each other:

"Every Bosnian I know had a friend, or even a family member, who flipped and betrayed the life they had shared until, in the early 1990s, the war started. My best high-school friend turned into a rabid Serbian nationalist and left his longtime girlfriend in Sarajevo so he could take part in its siege. My favorite literature professor became one of the main ideologues of Serbian fascism. Just last week, I talked to a Muslim man from Foča whose mother was repeatedly raped by his Serb friend, and whose brother was killed by their neighbor. Yugoslavia and Bosnia had provided a sense of societal stability for a couple of generations, which is why the betrayal was so shocking to so many of us."

How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.

As U.S. troops departed, Baghdad in ruins.

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. While on assignment for the New York Times, Anthony Shadid died today in Syria.

It’s now routine for corporations to outsource the task of generating new ideas. A look at the consulting firms who meet that need.

A survey of the 20th century’s greatest horror writer’s afterlife of influence.

On the work of Rachel Cusk.

The downside of opening up.

The surprising anti-monopolist origins of the world’s most popular board game.