An Obsessive Disaster Fetish Turned This Man Into a Crazed Mass Murderer
Sylvestre Matuschka ranks among the most bizarre mass murderers in history. Way before World War II, he anticipated the great plane bombers of the 1950s and ’60s like Albert Guay and Jack Gilbert Graham, with a single-handed bombing campaign directed against the railways of Central Europe. But the clichéd motives of transit saboteurs were not…
Exclusive: Read Julian Assange’s Introduction to The Wikileaks Files
This essay by Julian Assange is taken from the introduction to The Wikileaks Files: The World According to the US Empire, a collection analyzing how Wikileaks’ release of US diplomatic cables impacted foreign policy. One day, a monk and two novices found a heavy stone in their path. “We will throw it away,” said the…
There’s a Hidden Conveyor Belt Under the Capitol That Was Just for Moving Books
Most people who work in the U.S. Capitol don’t know about the 100-year-old book conveyor tunnel underneath them that used to connect the building to the Library of Congress. It’s long since abandoned, but it’s still down there. Before the separate library was finished in 1897, books had been kept in the Capitol itself, and…
