Eric Spitznagel
The Archive
Insider reveals the secrets of the Situation Room — where high drama and low farce collide
In a fascinating new book, George Stephanopoulos focuses on the White House crisis center.
The crazy ways humans are trying to control the weather
Following the Dubai floods last month, new scrutiny is being given to weather-manipulation techniques.
How Fox News host Bill Hemmer conquered the Arctic
It started with a call from the US Navy back in November, asking if I’d be interested in taking a trip to the Arctic later that winter. It’d be part...
How the Nazis helped 'discover' LSD
A new book chronicles the multiple way the Nazis helped exploit and explore LSD.
How Salman Rushdie survived his assassin
In his new book, Knife, author Salman Rushdie discusses almost being killed by an assassin.
Inside the deadly government guns program that made the US less safe
A new book details "Operation Fast and Furious," which was intended to prevent gun smuggling to Mexico, but actually made the US less safe
Breaking down America's teenage mental health crisis: 'It's almost like a trend'
Nora, 16, is a fairly typical teenager. A high-school student from Southern California, she lives on Snapchat, has a mouth full of braces, sings in the school choir and a...
How Antwerp became the drug den of Europe
When you read a headline like “Four Shootings in Three Days,” it wouldn’t be unfair to think it’s been another violent week in Chicago or possibly Juarez, Mexico. But the...
How Elon Musk quickly destroyed the Twitter that Jack Dorsey built
A series of news books chronicle Elon Musk's disastrous take-over of Twitter.
How comic Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine's 'Man of the People'
A new book chronicles the Volodymyr Zelenksy's rise from comic to president of Ukraine during wartime.
How an Amish man got away with murder again and again: Book explores how culture of secrecy shielded killer
"This is about a conspiracy to cover up a crime and let a serial killer go free," says sleuth Gregg Olsen.
How one woman tracked the researchers who tracked her for decades
Breslin had long been aware she was a “human lab rat,” in her words, but it wasn’t until adulthood that she started to wonder what it was all about.
Life on Mars? New book explores pitfalls of colonizing the cosmos: 'Space is terrible'
The authors of a new book say "space is terrible" and that living in the cosmos would mean disgusting food, awkward sex and anarchy.
YouTube's moderation policies make no sense
YouTube keeps on demonetizing users for with no rhyme or reason – and they're beginning to get angry.
How Meta got busted for harming teenage girls, boosting cartels and more misdeeds
On a December afternoon in 2020, Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz drove to Redwood Regional Park, just east of Oakland, Calif., for a mysterious meeting. For months, he’d been...
Vietnam broadcast helped homesick troops — and inspired Robin Williams
"Imagine the troops groaning when they were greeted with 'Goooood morning, Vietnam,'" says the author of a new book.
Why Latin American prisons are the most insane in the world
On Sept. 20, when 11,000 soldiers and police officers stormed the notorious Tocoron prison in northern Venezuela— on orders from President Nicolas Maduro to free the penitentiary from control of...
How 'The Sopranos' defied the odds — and the rules of TV — to become a hit
“It just violated too many do’s and don’ts, even for pay cable,” writes Peter Biskind in his new book, “Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV."
FBI agent who inspired Clarice Starling reveals what it's like working with serial killers
Former FBI agent Jana Monroe helped Jodie Foster for "The Silence of the Lambs" -- and writes about it in her new memoir ""Hearts of Darkness."
Why CAR-T cell therapy is the cancer killer the world needs now
The rising cancer treatment and technology known as CAR-T uses a patient's own blood cells to cure their malignancies.