In the wake of 9/11, terrorist networks moved their recruitment and training efforts online, giving birth to Jihad-geeks like Irhabi_007.

Inside the real lives of people who came early to intentionally provoking, confusing, and generally screwing with strangers online.

Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?

Brian Hickey, a journalist who was induced into a coma after being left for dead following a hit and run accident, reports the story of his recovery.

A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.

At three NYC comedy theater/schools, students and students-turned-instructors (a “benign pyramid scheme”) pursue the elusive simulacrum of human interaction that is longform improvisation.

If the fittest survive, why are so many people still depressed? An evolutionary theory on the benefits of painful rumination.

How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

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.

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.

The uneasy dance of the architecture critic, the big-name architect, the towering new building, and the city beneath it.

How a legally dubious FBI sting lured a pair of Russian hackers stateside.

Supply and demand paid-sex economics, ‘hobbyist’ internet message boards, and the power of reviews.

On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.

One of most popular Libyan figures amongst Western intellectuals and democracy advocates is… Qaddafi’s second son, Saif.

Tackling the science of cooking, one perfect french fry at a time.

How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.

It took Nav Sarao a long time to accept that he might have been scammed out of $50 million.

A profile of the man who teaches America’s police to be “sheepdogs.”

Computer scientist tycoon Robert Mercer is at the heart of a shockingly well-funded propaganda network.

An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”

The fall of a famous anchor.

A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.

The post-election life of the woman who would have been president.