While much of the media industry focused on the churn of headlines, we became increasingly interested in the undercurrents beneath them: the hidden systems, infrastructures and ideologies shaping ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s right-wing Reform UK party, has taken millions of pounds from crypto people, including ...

Brazilian legislators remain intent on holding Silicon Valley to account by attempting to regulate Big Tech in the country.

Russia’s Victory Day celebrations this year may have been scaled down, but Vladimir Putin has spent decades turning it into a ...

It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of results. Jeffrey Epstein’s international trafficking agents send him pictures and ...

In 2016, when Peter Thiel killed Gawker, he insisted that he wasn’t attacking journalism writ large. On the contrary, he told the New York Times, he’d spent $10 million secretly backing Hulk Hogan’s ...

In the flatlands of Italy’s Po Valley, the decommissioned Caorso nuclear power plant can be seen for miles, the reactor looming into the sky. When Alessandro Maffini, now an assistant professor at the ...

There was no specific tipping point that made Logan Lane get rid of her smartphone. One day, the thought just arrived. “I was like, I just can’t fucking do this anymore.” And she put away the device ...

It all started on impulse. I was lying in my bed, with the lights off, wallowing in grief over a long-distance breakup that had happened over the phone. Alone in my room, with only the sounds of the ...

There are cities that teach you to read between the lines, to notice the way the air shifts before history changes course. Beirut in 2008 was one of those cities. A familiar cast filled its glitzy ...