“Down the Rabbit Hole I Go”
At its heart this is a simple and tragic story, but it contains an array of troubling tropes of the new media age – catfishing, doxxing, hacking, bitcoin fraud and more.
He Played by the Rules of Putin’s Russia, Until He Didn’t: The Story of a Murder
A fine piece of reporting, peeling back the layers of Russian power and criminality swirling around the murder of the Russian politician and fixer Denis Voronenkov.
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
This story about a hit novelist’s complex web of fabrications has gone viral this week, unsurprisingly, as it offers readers an intoxicating combination of literary intrigue, society gossip, and schadenfreude.
The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer
The Yacht Guy has a job that is up there with the strangest in the new economy. He is paid to party on luxury yachts, sleep in their smallest cabin, and publicise their availability and location to his 800,000 Instagram followers.
Retail is broken. Apple’s Angela Ahrendts has a plan
An interview with Angela Ahrendts, the former CEO of Burberry, who has spent the last five years running Apple’s retail operation. In this interview, she discusses the future of retail.
Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
This extraordinary story sounds like something from a prestige television series (which it may well end up becoming), with a genius programmer building a platform marketplace allowing buyers access to all sorts of illegal goods.
Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost?
A profile of the Senate Majority Leader, one of the most powerful figures in Republican politics. He has a Republican in the White House, and the judicial appointments he wanted, but is it worth the price he’s having to pay?
The Desperado
A man with chronic health problems was drowning and disconnected from other people, with no help in sight. His exit strategy was to rob a bank.
A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”
The story of Guantanamo Bay before its most recent, and most controversial, use as a prison camp.
Setting the Table
An interactive visualisation telling the story of how the periodic table came to be.