How a ‘Snowdenista’ Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden in a Moscow Airport

Two years ago, activist and WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison spirited Edward Snowden out of Hong Kong and into safety in Russia, but not before the pair spent nearly six weeks living in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.

Source: Vogue
Published: Feb 18, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,700 words)

12 Minutes of Freedom in 460 Days of Captivity

In August 2008, Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan were kidnapped and held hostage in Somalia. They spent 460 days in captivity. This is the story of their escape attempt, which is excerpted from Lindhout’s book A House in the Sky:

“One afternoon, a light rain began to dapple the concrete wall across the alleyway from my window. The sky darkened to a powdery gray. A wind gusted, rushing through trees I couldn’t see, causing the rain to spray sideways on the wall.

“‘God, it’s beautiful,’ a voice said, clear as day, articulating my exact thought at the exact moment I had it.

“The voice wasn’t mine. But it was a voice I knew. ‘Nige?’

“The voice said, ‘Trout?’ Trout was a nickname I had since high school.

“For a shocked second, we were both silent. He was maybe 10 feet away from me at the window in his room. Because the alleyway was narrow and the tin roof of our house overlapped slightly with that of the house behind it, the acoustics were perfect.”

Published: Aug 28, 2013
Length: 36 minutes (9,169 words)

The Holy Grail of the Unconscious

Carl Jung founded the field of analytical psychology and, along with Sigmund Freud, was responsible for popularizing the idea that a person’s interior life merited not just attention but dedicated exploration — a notion that has since propelled tens of millions of people into psychotherapy.

Published: Sep 16, 2009
Length: 31 minutes (7,921 words)