The Feature

The Runaway General

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:16:36 -0400

The Rolling Stone profile of Stanley McChrystal that changed history

The Prism

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:13:33 -0400

Privacy in an age of publicity.

Scrubbed

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:30:09 -0400

I watched online as a college classmate went from disgrace to redemption in months. That’s when I found myself deep in the world of black-ops reputation management.

The Secret War

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:15:06 -0400

Infiltration. Sabotage. Mayhem. For years four-star General Keith Alexander has been building a secret army capable of launching devastating cyberattacks. Now it’s ready to unleash hell.

An Anonymous Rapper's War on Steubenville

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:45:12 -0400

One night this past December, sitting at his laptop in his bedroom in Winchester, Kentucky, Deric Lostutter donned a plastic Guy Fawkes mask, recently purchased on eBay. He turned on the camera of his souped-up gaming laptop and cued a computerized voice to start speaking.

The Long Con

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:30:09 -0400

Phil Ferguson pulled off one of the biggest frauds in Indiana history, duping clients out of millions of dollars and staying one step ahead of the law.

Marc Toberoff, Superman's Lawyer

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:15:10 -0400

Marc Toberoff, a tightly wound man with thinning hair and an expansive grin, is an attorney who specializes in suing movie studios on behalf of artists and writers. For 11 years he has represented the heirs of the late Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, in a campaign to regain the rights to the original superhero from Warner Bros.

The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:15:27 -0400

Douglas Groat thought he understood the risks of his job—until he took on his own employer

Big Brother Is Listening

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:45:20 -0400

The NSA has the ability to eavesdrop on your communications—landlines, cell phones, e-mails, BlackBerry messages, Internet searches, and more—with ease. What happens when the technology of espionage outstrips the law’s ability to protect ordinary citizens from it?

Inside The Immortality Business

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:45:08 -0400

Thanks to a small but devoted core of true believers and an infusion of Silicon Valley research funds, the once-revered, much-reviled science of cryopreservation may itself be coming back from the dead. Welcome to Alcor, where death is merely a temporary setback.

Must Cats Die So Birds Can Live?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:30:16 -0400

Inside an animal-lover civil war.

Chasing Jose

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:30:05 -0400

My pursuit of Jose began in January when I called him in California. His girlfriend, Heidi, answered the phone. I told her that I was writing a magazine story about Jose writing a book. “And a movie,” she said. “Jose is writing a book and a movie about himself.” I said, “You mean a screenplay?” She paused a beat, then said, “No, a movie.” I said, “Of course.”

Stevie Nicks, the Fairy Godmother of Rock

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:15:04 -0400

Nicks’s 65th birthday was May 26, and she spent it twirling onstage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Stevie Nicks, her generation’s great California girl sex symbol, who very publicly fought her way back from drug addiction and weight gain, now an aging rock star unafraid of the passage of time and, having long ago married her music, still an undefeated romantic searching for love. “She’s like your fairy princess godmother,” Courtney Love has said, “who’s gonna save you, and lives in a magical kingdom somewhere, and has, like, fabulous romances.”

Accidental Rewilding

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:15:17 -0400

In places once thick with farms and cities, human dispossession and war has cleared the ground for nature to return.

When The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:45:25 -0400

A journey into the world of Italy’s racist soccer thugs.

Silent War

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:30:42 -0400

On the hidden battlefields of history’s first known cyber-war, the casualties are piling up. In the U.S., many banks have been hit, and the telecommunications industry seriously damaged, likely in retaliation for several major attacks on Iran.

Beyond recognition: the incredible story of a face transplant

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:32:43 -0400

For Carmen Tarleton, the day started out normally enough. Tarleton, 45, had errands to run, a piano lesson to get to, a house to tidy. Tomorrow was Valentine’s Day, and for the first time in a long time — the first time since the attack five years earlier — she looked forward to spending it with a new boyfriend. And then everything changed. The phone rang, and Tarleton’s surgeon gave her the news: after more than a year of searching, doctors were optimistic that they’d finally found her a new face.

Everest Maxed Out

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:30:15 -0400

How to fix the mess at the top of the world

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:15:47 -0400

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man—a humble sushi chef from Japan—who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader’s cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir?

Physics's pangolin

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:30:10 -0400

Trying to resolve the stubborn paradoxes of their field, physicists craft ever more mind-boggling visions of reality