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Europe

Sex World

Behind Claude’s Doors

She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”

William Stadiem Vanity Fair Sep 2014 25min Permalink

History World

Enemy Aliens

The history of civilian internment camps.

Andrea Pitzer Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2014 15min Permalink

In Plain Sight

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.

Annie Hylton Harper's Jul 2020 30min Permalink

Crime Sports

The Final Whistle

Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

Sam Knight New Yorker May 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Business

Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Oct 2010 45min Permalink

Crime

The Bloody Baron’s Crazy, Mixed-Up Robbery

George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.

Lee van der Doo, David Wolman Daily Beast Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Politics

The Prophet of Germany’s New Right

A profile of the goat-herding nationalist intellectual who is leading a movement.

James Angelos New York Times Magazine Oct 2017 25min Permalink

Business World Food

Somerdale to Skarbimierz

Following a Cadbury factory to Poland.

James Meek London Review of Books Apr 2017 55min Permalink

World

The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador

A bullfighter’s comeback after a brutal goring.

Karen Russell GQ Oct 2012 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The World’s Biggest Diamond Heist

How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

Joshua Davis Wired Mar 2009 30min Permalink

Politics World

The Ruthlessly Effective Rebranding of Europe’s New Far Right

How populism took a continent.

Sasha Polakow-Suransky The Guardian Nov 2016 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Just Visiting"

An American wife's keen unhappiness on her European honeymoon.

Meredith Westgate Joyland Magazine Nov 2016 Permalink

Politics

The Man Who Brought You Brexit

“‘I’m going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the EU,’ Daniel Hannan replied. The aide laughed down the line. ‘Good luck with that.’”

Sam Knight The Guardian Sep 2016 30min Permalink

Crime World

Chasing ISIS

The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.

Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Politics World

Brexit: A Disaster Decades in the Making

A political history of Britain.

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“On the day after the referendum, many Britons woke up with the feeling – some for better, some for worse – that they were suddenly living in a different country. But it is not a different country: what brought us here has been brewing for a very long time.”

Gary Younge The Guardian Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Best Article Business World

The Ticking Euro Bomb

Built on a foundation of debt and trickery, where economic principles were sacrificed to romantic political visions, the Euro has become the world’s most dangerous currency. How the utopian dream of a common currency turned tragic.

  1. Part 1: How a Good Idea Became a Tragedy

  2. Part 2: How the Euro Zone Ignored Its Own Rules

  3. Parts 3 and 4: What Options Are Left for the Common Currency?

Der Spiegel Oct 2011 1h Permalink

Travel

What I Learned Tindering My Way Across Europe

“I never got the ‘I’ve never seen a black woman, let me touch your hair’ vibe, it was more just like, ‘Hi, attractive person, let’s do this.’”

Allison P. Davis Travel + Leisure Mar 2016 15min Permalink

World

Ten Borders

A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.

Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Oct 2015 35min Permalink

Business Tech World

Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

Brad Stone, Vernon Silver Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Business

The Millionaire Who Rescues Migrants at Sea

Christopher Catambrone wants to help illegal migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean in ill-equipped, unsafe boats. But it’s hard to do alone.

Giles Tremlett The Guardian Jul 2015 25min Permalink

Politics World Media

Can Politico Make Brussels sexy?

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Wetsuitman

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

Anders Fjellberg, Tomm W. Christiansen Dagbladet Jun 2015 40min Permalink

Business Crime World

Mastermind

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Arts Science World

A Return to the Western Shore

On the Aran islands of Ireland.

Anne Enright The Guardian May 2015 15min Permalink

Business History World

Lusitania: The Epic Battle Over Its Biggest Mystery

Gregg Bemis is an 87-year-old retired venture capitalist who owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania. He’s determined to prove an alternate theory as to why the ship was attacked in 1915. Unfortunately, the Irish government isn’t so into his plan.

Richard B. Stolley Fortune May 2015 15min Permalink

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