A look at Italy, where research suggests inhabitants have a lower degree of satisfaction with the status quo than their peers across a broad range of opinions and indicators, from antipathy for membership of the EU, concerns about loneliness and fear of unemployment to a declining birth rate, and an increasing number of academics leaving the country.
An author writing a book on Facebook (‘Facebook: The Inside Story’) gets access to a 17-page section of Mark Zuckerberg’s early notebooks, entitled “Book of Change.”
This 2015 story of dancers at a New York strip club conning customers has been turned into a hit 2019 film starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu.
The explosive story of Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that for decades supplied cryptography technology to numerous world governments, and provided a back door to US and West German intelligence services in the process.
An expansive profile of the author of two of the last decade’s biggest non-fiction hits – Sapiens, and Homo Deus.
A profile of Dominic Cummings by the Newsnight political editor.
A man who made it his mission to catch marathon cheats encountered a case that was to have unforeseen, and tragic, consequences.
A look at the interplay between “physical and social technologies” in driving human progress.
This dissection of a biography of the prominent American diplomatic Richard Holbrooke deals with a complex figure (“an exceptional shit of a human being, even aside from the defects born of extreme ambition”) who served in the Balkans under Clinton and Afghanistan under Obama, and stood for a very particular vision of America’s place in the world.
Azeem Azhar examines the the trends in medical emergency management, scientific collaboration, genomic technologies and remote working that the coronavirus outbreak may influence.