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World

World

Nowhere to Turn

A Nepali immigrant tries to survive, and support a family back home, on a cab driver’s wages in Qatar.

J. Zach Hollo Wilson Quarterly 15min Permalink

World

Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil Matter Jun 2015 30min Permalink

Business Crime Tech World Movies & TV

Inside the Hack of the Century

What really happened at Sony Pictures during the cyberattack – and questions about whether the company should have seen it coming.

  1. Part 1: Who Was Manning the Ramparts at Sony Pictures?

  2. Part 2: The Storm Builds

  3. Part 3: The Cyberbomb Is Detonated

Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2015 55min Permalink

Business World

The Kingdom of Haymour

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

Omar Mouallem Eighteen Bridges Nov 2013 30min Permalink

Politics World Media

The Mayor vs. the Mogul

Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.

Luke O'Brien Politico Magazine Jun 2015 40min Permalink

World

In Welsh Patagonia

A nonconformist pastor sent a colony of Welsh people to Argentina to try to preserve the language in 1865. 150 years later, the traces are still there.

Jasper Rees More Intelligent Life Jun 2015 10min Permalink

Arts World Movies & TV

Gone to Ghana

What it’s like to have your novel filmed by Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.

Bruce Chatwin Interview Mar 1988 15min Permalink

Politics World Media

Can Politico Make Brussels sexy?

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Wetsuitman

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

Anders Fjellberg, Tomm W. Christiansen Dagbladet Jun 2015 40min Permalink

World

Displaced in the D.R.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

Rachel Nolan Harper's May 2015 30min Permalink

World

Can Thusilie Madonsela Save South Africa From Itself?

On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.

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Alexis Okeowo on the Longform Podcast.

Alexis Okeowo New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 20min Permalink

Business Crime World

Mastermind

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink

World Religion

The Child Preachers of Brazil

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

Samantha M. Shapiro New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 15min Permalink

World

How Isis Crippled al-Qaida

The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.

Shiv Malik, Ali Younes, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Crime World

Harry Devert Took a Wrong Turn in Mexico

The last trip of a dedicated wanderer.

Jason McGahan Playboy Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Crime History World

The Odd Couple

Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.

Justine van der Leun The Guardian Jun 2015 30min Permalink

Politics World

How a Reviled African Ruler Survived a Coup Hatched in the United States

A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.

Craig Whitlock, Adam Goldman The Washington Post May 2015 10min Permalink

World

977 Days

On being held hostage by Somali pirates.

Michael Scott Moore The Guardian Jun 2015 30min Permalink

World

The Rise and Fall of Haitian Drug Lord Jacques Ketant

The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”

Kyle Swenson New Times Broward-Palm Beach May 2015 20min Permalink

World

"I Just Wish for People to Give Me a Chance"

Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.

Michelle Shephard The Toronto Star May 2015 15min Permalink

World

In Sanaa

The Houthi coup in Yemen.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad London Review of Books May 2015 15min Permalink

Arts World

Can China Take a Joke?

The culturally-bound mechanics of comedy.

Christopher Beam New York Times Magazine May 2015 20min Permalink

Business World

The Ecotourism Industry Is Saving Tanzania’s Animals and Threatening Its Indigenous People

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky Vice May 2015 40min Permalink

World

Returning to the Nepal Earthquake

The humanitarian crisis the rest of the world has already forgotten about.

Carole Cadwalladr The Guardian May 2015 20min Permalink

World

The Killing of Osama bin Laden

“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”

Seymour M. Hersh London Review of Books May 2015 40min Permalink

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