In the journalist Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden found a perfect match. I don't mean to slight the contributions of Laura Poltras and Barton Gellman, the other two journalists who first dug into Snowden's amazing and unprecedented trove of National Security Agency documents. Poltras was the one who realized Snowden was for real, and Gellman brought experience to the party. But Greenwald is the fighter -- the one you want in your corner when the world comes after you...

Media watchdgo Jim Romanesko was the first to catch that the New York Post had dropped its comics section. The section was wizened with age and neglect -- only seven meagre strips -- but evidently the Post dropped the page and hoped no one would notice. One who did was King Features editor Brendan Burford...

For years, a hype machine has been pushing the chemical resveratrol, which is in red wine. Initially, resveratrol was identified as a possible explanation for the "French paradox" -- the surprising fact that, despite consuming high amounts of saturated fat, French people have much lower rates of heart disease than Americans. Soon, resveratrol was being hailed as a magic bullet against heart disease, cancer and aging...

From the wild weather to the harsh landscape, Iceland has its fair share of mystifying phenomena. But none is more fascinating than the elves. They're real. And this woman will save them...

Tree poaching conjures up the lawless Amazon jungle, but America's magnificent redwood forests now face a piecemeal but steady assault by poachers too, California officials say. Thieves are cutting massive chunks from the base of the champion trees, which are the tallest on Earth and are up to 2,000 years old...

Boko Haram gets lost in translation. Oh, and the word 'boko' isn't derived from the word 'book.'...

Meet Tal Fortgang, the unsuspecting Princeton student who has launched a thousand thinkpieces with a personal manifesto about refusing to atone for his privilege. You probably already have.

“I have checked my privilege,” Fortgang, a white, male freshman from Westchester, New York, wrote in campus conservative magazine The Princeton Tory. “And I apologize for nothing.”...

Ever since militant jihadists killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador, in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in that remote Libyan town two years ago, House Republicans have kept up a drumbeat of insinuation. They have already devoted thirteen hearings, twenty-five thousand pages of documents, and fifty briefings to the topic, which have turned up nothing unexpected...

Eleven years ago, the 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan was sitting in the InterContinental hotel in Amman, Jordan, watching her career flash before her eyes. She was 31 years old, a rookie at CBS News, assigned to cover the biggest story on earth: the invasion of Iraq. But nothing was going as planned. With only days until the American invasion, Logan had been forced to leave Baghdad and was desperate to get back before the war began, but she and her crew, because of the dangers of the imminent “shock and awe” bombing campaign, were forbidden from going by the network. That’s when she heard about a convoy of French reporters making the trek to Baghdad...

Bob Dylan said it best, in a 2012 Rolling Stone interview timed to the release of his “Tempest ” album: “Why is it when people talk about me, they have to go crazy?” More than 50 years after he first started attracting fanatical followers, Mr. Dylan was facing down a more brutal and dangerous species of devotee than he had seen before. The fans had social media, and the scholars had computers; en masse, they could track every move he made and every word he wrote, said or sang. “Dylanologist,” once a derisive term for the self-styled expert who sifted through the Dylan family’s garbage cans, was now a word with wide colloquial meaning, if not yet a dictionary definition...