The Heiress, the Queen, and the Trillion-Dollar Tax Shelter
An ugly family battle on the island of Jersey spills into the open.
David Miranda and the Human-Rights Black Hole
David Miranda is many things—a boisterously proud, gay Brazilian; an outspoken civil liberties evangelist; a freshly minted university graduate; and the spouse of Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who has been publishing highly classified material leaked by former CIA systems analyst and National Security Agency (NSA) senior adviser Edward Snowden.
But one thing Miranda is not is a terrorist.
Miranda Is Not a One-Off; it Happened to Me.
Before David Miranda was detained for nine hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, there was me..
Fifty Shades of Amish: A Strange Genre of the Romance Novel
uke sucked in his breath and let it out slowly. "Okay, I'm just going to flat out ask you. What's it take to get to first base with you, Nora? You've been deflecting my —" "What do you consider first base?" The wide-eyed expression on Nora's face made Luke kick...
Fifty Shades of Amish: A Strange Genre of the Romance Novel
uke sucked in his breath and let it out slowly. "Okay, I'm just going to flat out ask you. What's it take to get to first base with you, Nora? You've been deflecting my —" "What do you consider first base?" The wide-eyed expression on Nora's face...
Thousands of Vulnerable Children Go Missing from Britain’s Protective Services
Thousands of Vulnerable Children Go Missing from Britain's Protective ServicesLeah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekMarch 3, 2015any of the child sex abuse scandals that have shocked Britain in recent years involve victims who were supposed to be under the...
A Surprisingly Modern Take on America From a Long-Dead Frenchman
A Surprisingly Modern Take on America From a Long-Dead Frenchman Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekJanuary 21, 2015uring a trip to London earlier this month, I happened to pick up a copy of Christian Dior's autobiography, Dior by Dior, recently reprinted...
David Miranda and the Human-Rights Black Hole
In 2013, Miranda filed a lawsuit against the U.K.’s Home Office and the Metropolitan Police Service claiming he was unlawfully detained and interrogated under the Terrorism Act 2000. He also claimed that his right to freedom of expression guaranteed under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) was violated. The U.K.’s High Court of Justice rejected the suit in February 2014, and his case is due to go to appeal in the first half of 2015.
How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror?
How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror?Leah McGrath Goodmanwith Janine Di Giovanni & Damien SharkovNewsweekNovember 6, 2014A man refines oil to produce gas and diesel. A micro-industry for fuel refinament has grown up around the desert town of Al Mansura east of...
Lawmakers Blast Child-Abuse Inquiry on Tax Shelter Jersey Island
Neil McMurray used to be a professional fisherman and crabber—until one of his children was repeatedly bullied in school and he found himself investigating what he began to view as a startling lack of concern for the welfare of children in his tiny island home.
On Writing…And The Point Of It All
One of the first things you learn as a writer is how to lower your expectations, lest you self-immolate. Then, there's the (very gradual) acceptance that your taste for great, great literature clearly exceeds your abilities...followed by a lifelong struggle to rectify...
How Washington Opened the Floodgates to Online Poker, Dealing Parents a Bad Hand
How Washington Opened the Floodgates to Online Poker, Dealing Parents a Bad HandLeah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekAugust 14, 2014I n 2007, the head of the FBI's Cyber Crime Fraud unit, Leslie Bryant, issued a stern warning to Americans: "You can go to Vegas. You can go to...
The Art of Financial Warfare: How the West is Pushing Putin’s Buttons
The Art of Financial Warfare: How the West Is Pushing Putin's Buttonswith Lynnley Browning NewsweekApril 4, 2014Dan Saelingerhis story has been updated with Treasury comment on the possibility of sanctions against Putin. "We found out by Twitter,"...
The Face Behind Bitcoin
The Face Behind BitcoinNewsweekMarch 6, 2014Header Image: BEN WISEMANSatoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed. He's wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks, without shoes, like he has left the...
Inside the World’s Top Offshore Tax Shelter
Inside the World's Top Offshore Tax ShelterNewsweek January 17, 2014 An aircraft takes off from Jersey Airport near St Peter, Jersey November 12, 2012. The idyllic aerial view of Jersey belies what is happening below.hona Pitman grew up in a rough...