Journalist Glenn Greenwald Glenn Greenwald, Pierre Omidyar, Adnan Syed and my battles with First Look Media. Ken Silverstein is a former senior investigative reporter for First Look Media, as well as a veteran of Harper’s and the Los Angeles Times . The delays were caused in part by management’s…

Jake Chessum Seventy-five. That’s how long I want to live: 75 years. This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can’t mean what I say; that I haven’t thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world…

David Malan via Getty Images Imagine that tomorrow I were to show you a newspaper article describing a deadly wildfire. Do you think you’d be more upset upon reading that 10,000 people died than if you read that five people died? This scenario makes people engage in affective forecasting —predicting…

William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook , in 1971 © JP Laffont/Sygma/Corbis O n September 10, 1976, during an evening flight from New York to Chicago, a bearded passenger handed a sealed envelope to an attendant. The note began: “One, this plane is hijacked.” In the rest of the letter,…

LONDON (Reuters) - Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday. The study estimating the extent of global private financial…

W hen the HMS Beagle dropped anchor on San Cristobal, the easternmost island in the Galapagos archipelago, in September 1835, the ship’s naturalist Charles Darwin eagerly went ashore to gather samples of the insects, birds, reptiles, and plants living there. At first, he didn’t think much of the…

With Internet connections orders of magnitude faster than are available in many larger American cities, Chattanooga’s public fiber optic broadband network has been the subject of press coverage and an object of envy around the world. But as the city’s Electric Power Board , which operates the…

NSA Spying Continues With Another Rubber Stamp By Dustin Volz Read bio March 1, 2015 Topics Intelligence Homeland Print Senate Appropriations Committee member Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. holds up his Verizon cell phone during the committee's hearing on cybersecurity and funding, June 12, 2013, on…

Make School a Democracy Credit Esther Aarts ARMENIA, Colombia — IN a one-room rural schoolhouse an hour’s drive from this city in a coffee-growing region of Colombia, 30 youngsters ages 5 to 13 are engrossed in study. In most schools, students sit in rows facing the teacher, who does most of the…

As I dug deeper, I realized there was a hole in the story of the start of the drug war—a large and cavernous one. It is possible to piece together how this all began through the eyes of the cops, the doctors, and the addicts. But as I read on, I found they were all obsessed with a fourth force—the…

Opinion How We Learned to Kill Credit Brian Stauffer THE voice on the other end of the radio said: “There are two people digging by the side of the road. Can we shoot them?” It was the middle of the night during my first week in Afghanistan in 2010, on the northern edge of American operations in…

Interactive Like everyone in Constitución, Alejandro Hormazabal remembers exactly where he was in the early hours of 27 February 2010. “I was at home with friends, having a little party. We were on our fifth glass of rum of the night,” he recalls with a smile. “Suddenly, the walls started to sway,…

Michael Youlen stopped a driver in a Manassas apartment complex on a recent night and wrote the man a ticket for driving on a suspended license. With a badge on his chest and a gun on his hip, Youlen gave the driver a stern warning to stay off the road. The stop was routine police work, except for…

IDEAS Shane Parrish writes Farnam Street It’s interesting to think about the things you want to accomplish in life and work towards those goals. This is, after all, what we’ve been taught to do since birth. But over time we accumulate other habits and end up spending our time on things that aren’t…

We came across the following article by Stephen King a little while ago on a number of different websites. We believe it was originally published in a 1986 edition of The Writer magazine and republished in the 1988 edition of The Writer’s Handbook . We reproduce it here for educational purposes…

The people pictured in this slideshow, all currently or formerly homeless, were photographed at St. Anthony's Dining Room, a free soup kitchen in the Tenderloin, on January 30. At left: Mr. Wright, 58 (Mr. Wright now lives at Kelly Cullen Community) . (1 of 11) Mike, 53 (2 of 11) Carolina, 40s (3 of…

AVG is always looking for ways to help people protect and secure their online identities and this year at Pepcom in Barcelona, we’re excited to reveal a pair of invisibility glasses. What are invisibility glasses? Developed by AVG Innovation Labs , the glasses help protect your visual identity in…

(Phys.org)—Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior. Quantum mechanics…

An Isis propaganda video. The group’s media arm is using slick and fast techniques to spread its content online, Photograph: Screengrab/YouTube Propaganda operatives from Islamic State (Isis) are piggybacking on popular internet hashtags and forums to secure the widest distribution of their videos,…

Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Scott G. Alvarez, the general counsel of the Federal Reserve, is said to hold sway on matters of financial regulation and reform. The debate over whether Janet Yellen or Lawrence H. Summers will be the next Federal Reserve chairman — or some dark horse, Timothy F.…

For Janet Yellen, throwing your hands up isn't good enough. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) A few months ago, a former employee at the secretive Federal Reserve Bank of New York named Carmen Segarra came forward and blew a big fat whistle . She alleged that she had witnessed regulators, and specifically…

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) grilled Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Tuesday over public advocacy of deregulation by the central bank's top lawyer, Scott Alvarez. "The Fed’s general counsel -- or anyone at the Fed’s staff -- should not be picking and choosing which rules to…

Warren grilled Yellen on whether the Fed's general counsel, Scott Alvarez, needs to be reined in. Alex Wong/Getty Images It's not unusual for Janet Yellen's regular monetary policy reports to focus on issues that have nothing to do with monetary policy. And going into her Tuesday appearance before…

An image of Ceres taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows that the brightest spot on the dwarf planet has a dimmer companion. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Scientists are puzzled by a new image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which found two bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The spots are…

Self-help done right is one of our greatest gifts in modern society. But let’s not kid ourselves here: done wrong, it isn’t just ineffective, it has the potential to do serious harm. Go to any self-help event, and you’ll find people in the room who show up year after year, yet remain stuck in the…

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings discuss their new Middle Class Prosperity Project.

Russian authorities claim Leonid Razvozzhayev admitted to plotting with leftist leaders and taking funding from a Georgian politician. Photograph: Aleksandr Vaynshtein/AFP/Getty Images Russia's top investigative agency has announced that a government opponent has turned himself in and confessed to…

World leaders led by David Cameron and Barack Obama have condemned the killing of prominent Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in Moscow on Friday evening. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and a sharp critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was reportedly…

J ack Gernsheimer met my car at the bottom of the lane. He looked good this summery Sunday, rested and tan. The logo on his T-shirt was one he and his brother designed years ago, featuring the name of the town they grew up in, which at the time was celebrating its 150th birthday: “Bernville,…

Would you be happier if you spent an hour juggling emails, meetings, and data analysis, or if you spent that hour focused only on data analysis? Which would you enjoy more: a Saturday spent bouncing from running errands, to cooking an elaborate dinner, to playing with the kids, or a Saturday…

A member of an expedition group at the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia on Nov. 9, 2014. (Vladimir Pushkarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration via Reuters) In the middle of last summer came news of a bizarre occurrence no one could explain. Seemingly out of…

Still a niche within a niche Enlarge / Borderlands: The Pre-sequel is one of only a handful of AAA games that major publishers have decided to launch concurrently on Windows and Linux. For all the excitement and effort from Valve and others, and the explosion of available games over the last few…

A teenager trying to take a selfie in front of the Queen in Belfast.Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/PA O ur social networks have a banality problem. The cultural premium now placed on recording and broadcasting one’s life and accomplishments means that Facebook timelines are suffused with postings…

The Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler. Credit Photograph by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality , preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from…

One of dozens of participants stripped down to his skivvies to compete in Fraternity Snoqualmie’s annual five-kilometer Bare Buns Fun Run Sunday, July 13, 2014, in Issaquah, Washington. The BBFR is one of many open-to-the-public events that FS hosts in the summer months. It is often a “gateway”…

Somewhere in the high desert of eastern Nevada, a few turns off Route 50 — "the loneliest road in America" — a station wagon sat parked by the side of the highway. Before it lounged a young couple on red lawn chairs. A crudely painted wooden sign on the vehicle's roof advertised: "Snow Globes $20."…

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