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The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Aug 2019 Permalink
He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 50min Permalink
Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.
Rachel Monroe Outside Jul 2019 15min Permalink
The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.
Michael Paterniti GQ May 2010 35min Permalink
A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.
Jacob Mikanowski Harper's Jul 2019 25min Permalink
The corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa, the world’s most unequal country.
Mark Gevisser The Guardian Jul 2019 25min Permalink
On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.
Alexander Zaitchik The Intercept Jul 2019 30min Permalink
Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.
Daniel Alarcón New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink
A visit to America’s leading trade show for state violence.
Brendan O'Connor The Baffler Jul 2019 20min Permalink
A conversation between the writers Nadifa Mohamed, who left Hargeisa, and Aleksandar Hemon, who left Bosnia.
Nadifa Mohamed, Aleksandar Hemon Lithub Jul 2019 Permalink
Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation—amid America’s retreat.
Sarah A. Topol The New York Times Magazine Jun 2019 30min Permalink
“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”
Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Jun 2019 30min Permalink
A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2019 25min Permalink
Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.
Seth Freed Wessler Good Jun 2012 20min Permalink
Lyra McKee’s last story.
Lyra McKee The Sunday Long Read May 2019 15min Permalink
The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.
Joel Gunter BBC May 2019 25min Permalink
Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.
Lisa Song ProPublica May 2019 25min Permalink
When Spanish authorities sentenced this provocative musician to prison for “glorifying terrorism,” his dedicated fans helped him make a daring escape across the border.
Meg Bernhard Narratively May 2019 15min Permalink
On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.
William Prochnau Vanity Fair May 1998 20min Permalink
My wife is not a terrorist.
Matt Rivers and Lily Lee CNN May 2019 20min Permalink
In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2013 15min Permalink
What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.
Matthew Bremner The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.
Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2019 40min Permalink
The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.
Lyra McKee Mosaic Jan 2016 15min Permalink