Written by David Kushner, Vanity Fair
April 19th, 2019
How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel.
Written by David Kushner, Wired
March 25th, 2019
Synthetic Biology is making it easier than ever to produce life-saving vaccines - and life-taking viruses that humanity is not prepared to fight.
Written by David Kushner, Wired
July 26th, 2018
An epic riddle. An eccentric storyteller. A missing person. When a man vanishes in the wilderness, his family takes to the internet to find him.
Written by David Kushner, Esquire
May 1st, 2018
A bank glitch gave a 24-year old, down-on-his-luck Australian man access to unlimited funds. Then he did exactly what you think he did with it.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
June 29th, 2017
When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
August 10th, 2016
Joe Passalaqua claims "103 kills," but one judge described his elaborate tales as little more than "criminal fantasy"
Written by David Kushner, Foreign Policy
July 7th, 2016
Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?
Written by David Kushner, Foreign Policy
April 26th, 2016
To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
February 1st, 2016
Sexy, single and artificially-intelligent — fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond Ashley Madison
Written by David Kushner, Backchannel
November 23rd, 2015
In a town where everyone has been pwned, or soon will be, there’s no such thing as false paranoia. Which brings us to Oliver Stone and his upcoming Snowden biopic.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
November 17th, 2015
An exclusive account of how Aziah "Zola" Wells' road trip to Florida with an exotic dancer, a boyfriend and a pimp went south.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
November 5th, 2015
Inside the Web's secret space for drug dealers, arms traffickers, hackers and political dissidents
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
August 27th, 2015
Mark Karpeles was the accidental emperor of bitcoin. Then a half-billion dollars worth of bitcoins vanished from his exchange.
Written by David Kushner, BuzzFeed
March 19th, 2015
The government says Matt DeHart is an online child predator. He says that’s a ruse created because he discovered shocking CIA secrets and claims he was tortured by federal agents. The only thing that’s clear is that he’s in deep trouble.
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
February 18th, 2015
How did a homeless kid from Boston transform himself into a major overlord in Chinatown's criminal underworld?