It was only after his death that the parents of a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, learned that their son Mats had lived had a vibrant online life in World of Warcraft as Ibelin, “a nobleman by birth, a philanderer and a detective”.
A profile of Psy-Group, the private intelligence agency with the slogan “Shape Reality”.
A friend of Maria Butina tells her story from very close up.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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?