A piece about warnings of an impending ÒinfocalypseÓ, as tools to falsify video footage, images and the writing of real people become ever more sophisticated, and our ability to control their proliferation remains essentially non-existent.
A thoughtful story about writing stories, describing lessons learned as a foreign correspondent in Belarus twenty years ago.
A piece looking at the experience of women that have left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and life in Short Creek, their base on the Arizona-Utah border.
A piece examining the significant impact of new, highly partisan independent publications on the UK election and the failure of the right-wing press to destroy Jeremy Corbyn.
An in depth investigation by Buzzfeed News into the death of a British fixer in London points to Russian involvement, and to the death being the ninth in a series amongst a group of people linked to Boris Berezovsky, the oligarch who turned against the Kremlin. The piece also suggests that the British government did not investigate the death fully, rapidly naming it a suicide and moving on.
The writer goes to the traditional Labour stronghold of Newcastle-under-Lyme that polling suggests is now leaning towards the Conservative Party and speaks to constituents to find out why.
The transcript from a Steve Bannon lecture, delivered to the Vatican in 2014.
This piece goes in search of a genius who went to Harvard aged 15, wrote comic songs that were a huge hit and with which he toured the world, then almost entirely vanished from the stage. Talking to People magazine in 1982, as ever he had the best words to describe some of what had changed “Things I once thought were funny are scary – now I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava.”
A look at how the romance fiction genreÕs politics are evolving in the era of #MeToo and Trump.