How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.
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Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.
Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Feb 2020 10min Permalink
Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Apr 2020 40min Permalink
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.
Andy Greenberg Wired May 2020 55min Permalink
The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?
Megan K. Stack New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
Rachel Mabe Oxford American Aug 2020 30min Permalink
The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.
Laura Secor New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
During a decade when Cascadia’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations.
Robert McClure Investigate West Jan 2021 15min Permalink
As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Apr 2021 1h10min Permalink
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On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”
Adam Minter Businessweek Aug 2013 10min Permalink
“Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it.”
Jeffrey Gettleman National Geographic Oct 2013 10min Permalink
Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.
Stephanie Mencimer Washington Monthly Oct 2013 2h30min Permalink
They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Nov 2013 20min Permalink
On the lobotomizing of 2,000 U.S. veterans after World War II.
A jailhouse interview with Vladimir Putin’s rival at the very end of his decade behind bars.
Neil Buckley Financial Times Oct 2013 25min Permalink
On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.
Joe Friesen The Globe and Mail Jun 2011 45min Permalink
Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Mar 2016 25min Permalink
On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 Permalink
The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
Grayson Schaffer Outside May 2016 20min Permalink
How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.
Rahul Bhattacharya OPEN Magazine Jun 2016 1h5min Permalink
Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.
Kyle Chayka Racked Jul 2016 Permalink
Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Nov 2016 35min Permalink
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink
What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.
Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Dec 2016 35min Permalink