The breakthroughs. The drama. The bickering. The success. The story of how Twitter was born....

In this exclusive interview, Carne Ross, former British diplomat and current advisor to the United Nations for the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, talks about Syria, international diplomacy, capitalism, anarchism, gay rights, Gandhi, and John le Carré....

PERHAPS TO HIS DISMAY, the prolific novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie may be best known for the fatwa Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued against him for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988). He is, of course, more than a once-persecuted writer. ...