Articles by Abraham Riesman

Good point-and-click games and good investigative journalism have more in common than you might think.

Check out our video to learn about Cuba's underground railroad of USB drives, how to blog without a computer, and how Raúl Castro is getting craftier at using the Internet as a weapon against dissidents.

Has the storied genre where Nazis triumph and the South beats the Yanks been consumed by the scourge of Steampunk?

The new Star Wars trilogy will render the entire Expanded Universe meaningless.

You probably haven't heard of A1 MoufPiece. But if you're not careful, you might accidentally listen to his music.

When you think of people who urge humanity to go to the stars, you tend to think of cheery icons like Carl Sagan. But Newt Gingrich had to get his bold ideas about space exploration from someone.

Is there a nation in the world that the Internet laughs at more than North Korea?

"This is a .biz site, I remind you," Will Zweigart yelled last night over a pounding, over-modulated Kanye West track. "It's not .org! Tonight is about .biz!" Zweigart wasn't angry, but he seemed slightly -- _very_ slightly -- indignant. He was ta…

“I made a very solemn vow about firearms,” Bruce Wayne said in 2009, as he approached the evil god who would go on to kill him. That was the eighth-to-last sentence he ever spoke.

Three years after Facebook-friendly dissidents took to the streets of Tehran and made techno-optimists giddy about the Internet's liberating potential, things have gotten bleak. Once again, the mullahs are taking on democracy-minded netizens -- but n…