In 2010, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin pulled off a rather marvelous feat. They made a movie about the Internet, Facebook origin story The Social Network, that was urgent, dark, scary, exciting. It's ...

In October 2006, famed hacker Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks, an innovative web-based platform designed to allow anonymous submission of secret and often classified information too hot for the ...

With Julian Assange a refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012, what’s his whistle-blowing website been up to? Well, last year WikiLeaks published the Syria files — more than 2 ...

When a body was found in a roadside ditch outside Mexico City, it seemed like just another murder – one of tens of thousands of violent killings in that country each year. But the victim was in fact ...

Something curious happened while we were mourning journalism’s decline: it was quietly reinventing itself. Not through grand reforms or billion-dollar bailouts, nor through scribes deciding to all ...