Silent War

I. Battlespace II. Flame, Mahdi, Gauss IV. The Cyber-Arms Bazaar HOMEOn the hidden battlefields of history’s first known cyber-war, the casualties are piling up. In the U.S., many banks have…
PUBLISHED: July 1, 2013
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7105 words)

The Body in Room 348

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8109 words)

Facebook Leans In

HOMEEver since Facebook’s ballyhooed, bungled I.P.O., its share price has languished, with Wall Street asking when the social-media giant is going to grow up and make money. From confidential…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6506 words)

Comrades-in-Arms

This year Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich, two of Russia’s most prominent oligarchs, squared off in a London courtroom—former business partners turned bitter enemies. At stake were billions of…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7217 words)

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The Wrath of Putin

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared confront then president Vladimir Putin, criticizing state corruption at a meeting with Putin in February 2003. Arrested that fall,…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6664 words)

Here on Planet Tollywood

A picture-perfect replica of the Hollywood sign shines in the clear, cool sunlight, a helicopter beside it and, down below, a city of fake fronts with signs advertising “Greg’s Pistol…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1645 words)

The Book of Jobs

It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the recession. There are 6.6 million fewer jobs in the United States than there were…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (370 words)

Trial of the Will

Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. —Kingsley Amis Pointed threats, they bluff with…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1652 words)
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