A long-ago plane crash, the lives it ended, and the lives it began.
By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   Nov 2023
Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.
By: Rachel Monroe   |   New Yorker   |   March 2023
Students have overdosed during class, in bathrooms, and in an elementary-school parking lot.
By: Ian Urbina   |   Politico   |   nov 2023
Uyghurs and North Koreans are forced to work in Chinese seafood processing plants. But the federal government purchases millions of dollars of this seafood for the military and school lunches.
Elite goalkeeper, soccer captain, a star in the classroom: Katie Meyer was seemingly the model Stanford student. But after she took her own life last year, her parents came to believe that the school failed her—and should be held accountable so more students aren’t put at risk.
By: Topher Sanders, Jessica Lussenhop, Dan Schwartz, Danelle Morton and Gabriel Sandoval   |   Propublica   |   Nov 2023
Railroad companies have penalized workers for taking the time to make needed repairs and created a culture in which supervisors threaten and fire the very people hired to keep trains running safely. Regulators say they can’t stop this intimidation.
By: Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing   |   Reuters   |   Nov 2023
Appin was a leading Indian cyberespionage firm that few people even knew existed. A Reuters investigation found that the company grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe. Appin alumni went on to form other firms that are still active.
Our friendship survived bad dates, illness, marriage, fights. Why can’t it survive your baby?
For decades, legends in the NBA headed up to the Catskill Mountains to do what they knew to help one of their own
By: Adam Gopnik   |   New Yorker   |   Nov 2023
The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?