This week: America's gambling epidemic in Harper's, Jon Lee Anderson on Venezuela's uncertain future, the AI web eating itself, plus Dwayne Johnson's Oscar-nominated transformation, Mel Brooks at 99, and three podcasts you need to hear.
This week: Sam Knight's brilliant New Yorker deep dive on WhatsApp's global takeover, a philosophical takedown of AI consciousness hype, plus A24's raw motherhood fever dream, Victorian bare-knuckle boxing, and three must-watch documentaries.
This week: Prince Andrew's £15m mansion sale to a Kazakh oligarch, a CIA traitor's death, Stephen Graham's Victorian boxing drama returns, and our investigation into Venezuela's missing billions.
Alex Saab may control $60 billion in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump's naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain.
Professor Wisit Wisitsora-at promised to speed up fraud investigations when he became SEC Chairman. 16 months later, he's done nothing on Finansia X. Documents reveal why: he is compromised.
Documents obtained by Whale Hunting reveal Benjamin Mauerberger secured an official government partnership to write Thailand's digital finance laws, create a state-backed crypto on/off-ramp, and deploy 500 operatives with government visas.
This week's picks share a common thread: people pursuing truth in systems designed to obscure it. From veterans fighting for healthcare to drug kingpins in Dubai, from AI chatbots replacing doctors to comedy legends navigating show business.
