An account of how a positive vision for technology’s impact on society curdled over the course of a decade, narrated by people at the centre of the industry – from the Arab Spring, to the slow-down of Moore’s Law, to the launch of Instagram.
A look at how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is using increasingly invasive data surveillance techniques in its lurch away from the Obama administration’s “Felons, not families” approach.
A conflicted former staffer reports from ringside seats with the far-right controversialist Alex Jones.
A fine look at the landmark documentary series Up, that has met a group of people every seven years throughout their lives, and has just released its latest instalment with its subjects aged sixty-three. As the author notes the series plays with the idea that to “spend time with a child is to dwell under the terms of an uneasy truce between the possibility of the present and the inevitability of the future”.
The remarkable story of a family that in the 1970s installed themselves in the VIP waiting room in New Delhi railway station and staked a claim to the ancient royal house of Oudh. They spent over 40 years being interviewed by a succession of journalists about their story – but was it true?
An epic narrative and data visualisation of the President’s social media activity, and how it has played an outsized role in his administration.
The death of an 18 year old in Minot, North Dakota, from an overdose lead to a global hunt that went as far as Hong Kong.
A profile of the hugely successful and highly controversial YouTuber Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a PewDiePie. The story also acts a guide to “InnerYouTube”.
A thoroughly researched and gripping story that explores the Boeing 737 Max crashes in minute detail and in so doing outlines some alarming practices in the aviation industry.
A fine piece of reporting that goes deep into the geopolitics of the Middle East and America’s approach to the region.