ALEX PASTERNACK
The Geography of Secret Places: An Interview with Trevor Paglen
This week Trevor Paglen debuted a new set of photographs of secret stuff, what he calls "the deep state."
From Trash to Punk: The Underside of China's Spectacular Urban Growth
Two films in progress examine some of the other ugly aspects of the country's high-speed development, through a lens of nuance and experience.
The Home of Olive Oil and Mozzarella Is Still the Mafia's Toxic Waste Land
One of Italy's major mafia organizations has made giant profits from disposing of an untold amount of waste, some of it toxic.
Who's Willing to Go to Jail for Bitcoin?
In court on Monday, the government invoked the old days of Bitcoin—the rush of a financial frontier and the proud free-wheeling of the Silk Road—days that many proponents of Bitcoin wish could stay buried.
The Global Elite Are Sleeping Inside a Golden Egg in the Swiss Alps
And not just metaphorically, either.
YouTube Thinks "I Have a Dream" Is Lounge Music
More inadvertent lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr., about a flawed copyright system.
At Home With Glenn Greenwald
The detention of his husband turned Greenwald's fight more personal: "It showed how they can't be trusted to exercise power without transparency and accountability."
At Home With Glenn Greenwald
The detention of his husband turned Greenwald's fight more personal: "It showed how they can't be trusted to exercise power without transparency and accountability."
All Systems Are Insecure Until Proven Otherwise: An Interview with Bruce Schneier
The security guru Bruce Schneier wrote the book on cryptography, and is helping Glenn Greenwald analyze the NSA documents released by Edward Snowden.
A Dark Surrealist Cosmic Opera Music Video Made of 'OMNI' Stuff
A sci-fi fantasy feast in the vein of Solaris, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kubrick, and the comic series Métal Hurlant.
The Lost Spy: Dissecting the CIA's Biggest Scandal Since 9/11
Why journalists waited over six years to reveal a CIA contractor was being held hostage in Iran—and was that long enough?
Oh Kaplan, My Kaplan!
A former intern remembers the editor of novelistic New York journalism, who inspired a generation of writers and launched a thousand fake Tweets.