Behind Claude’s Doors
She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”
Europe
Enemy Aliens
The history of civilian internment camps.
In Plain Sight
The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.
The Final Whistle
Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.
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.
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.
The Prophet of Germany’s New Right
A profile of the goat-herding nationalist intellectual who is leading a movement.
Somerdale to Skarbimierz
Following a Cadbury factory to Poland.
The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador
A bullfighter’s comeback after a brutal goring.
The World’s Biggest Diamond Heist
How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.
The Ruthlessly Effective Rebranding of Europe’s New Far Right
How populism took a continent.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Just Visiting"
An American wife's keen unhappiness on her European honeymoon.
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.’”
Chasing ISIS
The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.
Brexit: A Disaster Decades in the Making
A political history of Britain.
“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.”
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.
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.’”
Ten Borders
A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.
Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU
European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.
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.
Can Politico Make Brussels sexy?
A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.
The Wetsuitman
Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.
Mastermind
Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.
A Return to the Western Shore
On the Aran islands of Ireland.
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.
