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Generation June
Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.
Moscow's Stray Dogs
The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.
The War for Drugs
How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.
Climbers
On Rwanda’s cycling team.
Quoosiers
Inside the Quidditch World Cup.
The Syria Catastrophe
A primer.
When the Beautiful Game Turns Ugly
A journey into the world of Italy’s racist soccer thugs.
Woman Marries Snake
A love story.
Planet Fox
How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world.
The World’s ‘Best’ Car Bombers?
An interview with an ex-CIA agent who is a world expert on the history of car bombing.
An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
Dry, the Beloved Country
A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.
City of Exiles
Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.
WWF's Secret War
The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.
Fraud on the Farm
How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme.
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John Quiggin on the 15-hour week.
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Interview: Donald Trump
Look, this is about Russia. So I think if [Robert Mueller] wants to go, my finances are extremely good, my company is an unbelievably successful company. And actually, when I do my filings, peoples say, “Man.” People have no idea how successful this is. It’s a great company. But I don’t even think about the company anymore. I think about this. ’Cause one thing, when you do this, companies seem very trivial. O.K.? I really mean that. They seem very trivial. But I have no income from Russia. I don’t do business with Russia. The gentleman that you mentioned, with his son, two nice people. But basically, they brought the Miss Universe pageant to Russia to open up, you know, one of their jobs. Perhaps the convention center where it was held. It was a nice evening, and I left. I left, you know, I left Moscow.
Escape from Cuba
Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.
Factory Girls
On the rise of K-pop.
The New Roma Ghettos
On the segregation of Slovakia’s Gypsies.
Leaving Reality
Life after The Real World.
