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.
A look at the interplay between “physical and social technologies” in driving human progress.
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 prospect in the US of a presidential election saturated with the “censorship through noise” of a coordinated disinformation campaign.
A look at the longstanding financial relationship between The Trump Organisation and Deutsche Bank.