The Migrant Caravan: Made in USA
Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorrah, on a strand of migration to the US linked directly to the effects of the Honduran drugs trade.
The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now
A fine piece about the story behind a powerful image of injured US Marines in the Vietnam War.
Private Mossad for Hire
A profile of Psy-Group, the private intelligence agency with the slogan “Shape Reality”.
My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft
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”.
The teen lovebirds last saw each other in 1952. Now they were reuniting. But was it love?
She was a Brazilian heiress on her first trip abroad, he the son of the owners of the hotel where she was staying in Italy. Teenage romance blossomed, but it would be more than half a century before they met again.
The Money Saving Expert: how Martin Lewis became the most trusted man in Britain
A profile of the man who The Financial Times suggests is “the most successful journalist in the world, ever”.
Let Me Tell You About My Friend Maria Butina — Who Might Be A Russian Spy
A friend of Maria Butina tells her story from very close up.
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
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.
“Down the Rabbit Hole I Go”
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.
Retail is broken. Apple’s Angela Ahrendts has a plan
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.