Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.

“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”

“After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.”

In March 1971, John and Bonnie Raines broke into an FBI office, stealing documents that revealed that the government was spying on its own citizens. Today, they’re hailed as heroes. Is this what the future holds for Edward Snowden?

The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

An obituary.

A profile of Jesselyn Radack, who represents whistleblowers.

Edward Luttwak is a rare bird whose peripatetic life and work are the envy of academics and spies alike. ...he published his first book, Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, at the age of 26. Over the past 40 years, he has made provocative and often deeply original contributions to multiple academic fields, including military strategy, Roman history, Byzantine history, and economics.

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

“The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.”

Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.

Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

The twisting paths that brought together Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.

Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.

Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars—a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.

In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”

On Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.

The author examines his closest relationships.

The story of Edward Deeds, a state mental hospital patient and artistic genius.

How Moscow State university discriminated against Jewish applicants using deceptively simple problems.

After offending Richard Marx, the author meets him to hash things out.

Meet Britain’s “Batman of obscenity.”