Tales of the Tyrant
The daily life of Saddam Hussein.
World
‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’
Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter.
Leaving the Witness
A lifelong Jehovah’s Witness moves to China to proselytize.
An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
First Come the Sweets, Then the Beheadings
How ISIS trains the children it captures.
Confessions of a Political Hacker
How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.
Brexit Blues
“If I had to pick one sentence I’ve heard more than any other in the last six years of conversation about economics, it would be ‘Why aren’t people more angry?’ The Brexit vote showed that plenty of them are. But perhaps it expressed that other feeling, the one of bewilderment, just as much. ‘Take back control’ is a cynical but extremely astute pitch to an electorate in that state of mind.”
A Terrifying Journey Through the World's Most Dangerous Jungle
The Darién Gap is a lawless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama teeming with everything from deadly snakes to antigovernment guerrillas. For many migrants, crossing it is their only way to get to America.
The Deep State
On Erdogan’s struggle for power.
The Story of Ahmed and Alin
Syrian orphans become child laborers in Turkey.
Rom Watangu
An indigenous leader reflects on a lifetime following the law of the land in Australia.
“What Aboriginal people ask is that the modern world now makes the sacrifices necessary to give us a real future. To relax its grip on us. To let us breathe, to let us be free of the determined control exerted on us to make us like you. And you should take that a step further and recognise us for who we are, and not who you want us to be. Let us be who we are – Aboriginal people in a modern world – and be proud of us. Acknowledge that we have survived the worst that the past had thrown at us, and we are here with our songs, our ceremonies, our land, our language and our people – our full identity. What a gift this is that we can give you, if you choose to accept us in a meaningful way.”
Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome
Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs
The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.
The Secrets in Guatemala's Bones
In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.
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 Prosecutor and the President
The International Criminal Court embodied the hope of bringing warlords and demagogues to justice. Then Luis Moreno-Ocampo took on the heir to Kenya’s most powerful political dynasty.
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.
The Ghosts of Fukushima
“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”
The Bears Who Came to Town and Would Not Go Away
A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.
Assam 2012: The Story of a Riot
How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.
Wedding Crasher
The drunken wedding speeches of Georgia.
All Due Respect
An American reporter takes on the Yakuza.
How to Grow a Weetabix
On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.
A Year After the Quake, Nepal Is Still a Mess
Help came right away. And then it stopped.
Sunk
An $140 million blockbuster written and funded by a billionaire, ‘Empires of the Deep’ was supposed to be China’s ‘Avatar,’ featuring mermaids, Greek warriors, pirates, sea monsters, and an even international stars.
Six years after being filmed, the movie has never seen the light of day.
