David Harewood, who turned sixty this week, returns as Othello for the third time on stage. It’s a role he first took on in 1997, becoming the first black actor to play the part at London’s National ...

Castro circles now faces prison as an unregistered foreign agent. His path from Cold War covert ops to selling secrets says a ...

The late Marcel Ophuls made films about the twentieth century’s great crimes—and the trail of guilt they left behind.

Conspiracy thrillers were all the rage in the 1970s, and we've put together a list of the best for you to watch next. Just ...

Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist priest, teacher, world traveler, CIA agent, and a mystic. He was one of ...

Lt. Jack Taylor of the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) is one of many victims of the Holocaust whose ...

He allegedly shot two members of West Virginia’s National Guard on the eve of Thanksgiving. U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from her injuries. The other victim, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt.

Last month, two journalists decoded part of the famous Kryptos sculpture in front of the CIA building. It’s the latest news in the cryptography world, as ciphers continue to attract code crackers in ...

Netflix Thursday released its first trailer for “Marines,” a four-episode documentary series on the U.S. Marine Corps. All four episodes are set to air on the service’s 250th birthday on Nov. 10. The ...

As students returned to school this week, WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of a violent online group known as “Purgatory” about a rash of swattings at universities across the US in recent days.

This month’s picks look at organ donors, twins conversing in their own language and California wildfires. By Ben Kenigsberg The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult ...