Where Surveillance Cameras Work But the Justice System Doesn’t
Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.
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Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.
Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of World Jan 2021 25min Permalink
Inside a Michelin-starred chef’s revolutionary quest to harvest rice from the sea.
Matt Goulding Time Jan 2021 20min Permalink
On the rescue in July of two children from a burning apartment in southern France.
Myriam Lahouari BBC Jan 2021 10min Permalink
She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”
William Stadiem Vanity Fair Sep 2014 25min Permalink
Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.
Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Dec 2020 20min Permalink
A trip to Batumi, Georgia.
A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.
Katrin Bennhold New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink
When it comes to data from India’s 500 million daily internet users, everything is for sale.
Snigdha Poonam, Samarth Bansal Rest of World Dec 2020 Permalink
The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.
Christopher Clark Hakai Dec 2020 15min Permalink
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.
John Sudworth BBC Dec 2020 25min Permalink
After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2020 Permalink
Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, attempting to catch her daughter’s murderers in the border town of San Fernando.
Azam Ahmed New York Times Dec 2020 Permalink
In Belarus, a travel writer wrestles with his role.
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?
Samira Shackle The Guardian Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty New York Times Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.
Darren Loucaides Wired Nov 2020 40min Permalink
A 17,000-word exploration of the Sahara Desert, the hottest place on Earth.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 1991 1h10min Permalink
Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?
Suki Kim New Yorker Nov 2020 35min Permalink
For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.
Sukhada Tatke Fifty Two Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.
ANNIE HYLTON Guernica Nov 2020 20min Permalink
On revisionist architecture.
Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?
Jack Hitt Virginia Quarterly Review Sep 2020 30min Permalink
On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”
Paul A. Kramer Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 35min Permalink