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Sections

World

World Travel

If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be the Taliban

At tourism’s wildest frontier; guided tours of Afghanistan.

Damon Tabor Outside Dec 2010 25min Permalink

Tech World

Obsessed with the Internet: A Tale from China

On boot camps designed to break kids of their web addiction.

Christopher S. Stewart Wired Jan 2010 15min Permalink

Best Article Sports World

Home and Away

A profile of Yao Ming published during his second season in the NBA.

Peter Hessler New Yorker Dec 2003 30min Permalink

History World Travel

Amakusa: Islands of Dread

The history of a Japanese archipelago and its inhabitants, through rebellions and famine, a 20th century exodus for prostitution work across Asia, and finally depopulation and isolation.

Richard Hendy Spike Japan Nov 2010 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Real-life Swedish Murder That Inspired Stieg Larsson

A Stockholm prostitute is found hacked apart in a dumpster, her head is never found. Two accomplished doctors, confirmed creeps, are arrested. Uncertainty endures.

Julie Bindel The Telegraph Nov 2010 10min Permalink

Crime World

The Trafficker

The amiable international arms dealer and the sting.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2010 35min Permalink

World

Who Was Gareth Williams?

Autopsy of a spy.

Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark The Guardian Nov 2010 Permalink

World

The Justin Bieber of Bullfighting

Michelito Lagrevere is a 12-year-old Mexican matador sensation.

Laurence Lowe Details Dec 2010 15min Permalink

Arts World

Gandhi's Invisible Hands

The team of assistants that made Gandhi.

Ian Desai Wilson Quarterly Sep 2010 30min Permalink

World

Tehran Nights

Published on the eve of Iran’s 2009 presidential election and subsequent protests, a look at the booze-fueled, hijab-less underground party scene in the capital.

Ed Caesar GQ (UK) Jun 2009 Permalink

Crime Science World

The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

Brendan Kiley The Stranger Aug 2010 15min Permalink

World

The Convict and the Congressman

How did a Kentucky entrepreneur, a Louisiana politician, and the vice president of Nigeria end up in one of the biggest scandals to hit America’s black elite in decades?

Andrew Rice Portfolio Oct 2007 20min Permalink

World

Being Eaten By the Dragon

Western execs on what it’s like to be taken over by a Chinese firm.

The Economist Nov 2010 10min Permalink

Best Article History World

A Death in the Sanchez Family

An oral history of a family in Mexico City, in transition from poverty to the lower-middle class, as they scramble to organize the burial of a slum-dwelling aunt.

Oscar Lewis New York Review of Books Sep 1969 40min Permalink

Crime Politics World

The Man Behind Mumbai

An investigation into Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group behind the 2008 Mumbai massacre, and why Pakistani authorities has not arrested their leaders.

Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Nov 2010 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

La Violencia

Scenes from the new Tijuana: two teenage brothers from the country club set descend into the cartel underworld, bored federales guard the acid pit where hundreds of bodies were erased, families picnic through a chain-link border fence.

Ed Vulliamy Guernica Nov 2010 30min Permalink

Best Article World

Oh! What a Lucrative War

How to spend $1.2 million per month on your laundry in Kuwait; the system of kickbacks and non-competitive contracts that made Halliburton/KBR the near-exclusive contractor in the Iraq war zone.

Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair Apr 2005 35min Permalink

Arts World

The Miracle in Bilbao

The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.

Herbert Muschamp New York Times Magazine Sep 1997 20min Permalink

World

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Day in Court

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oil magnate and once the richest man in Russia, delivers a speech from prison, where he has lived since 2003.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky The New Republic Nov 2010 10min Permalink

Science World

Dirty Coal, Clean Future

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.

James Fallows The Atlantic Nov 2010 35min Permalink

World Religion

The Rise of the Tao

On the religious revival underway in China.

Ian Johnson New York Times Magazine Nov 2010 Permalink

Science World

A Deadly Misdiagnosis

“You can treat a lot of people, and India has,’’ says an epidemiologist working on TB. “But if you have tests that cause misdiagnosis on a massive scale you are going to have a serious problem. And they do.”

Michael Specter New Yorker Nov 2010 20min Permalink

World

Fading Horrors of the Grand Guignol

The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.

P.E. Schneider New York Times Magazine Mar 1957 10min Permalink

World

The Tiger’s Revenge

In the feral communities of Russia’s Far East, tiger poaching is among the few lucrative pursuits. This is the story of a tiger who fought back.

John Vaillant Men's Journal Sep 2010 25min Permalink

Crime World

Outcasts: Inmates of the Black Eagle

Russia has ended its death penalty, leaving in its place five prison “colonies” to house its most hardened criminals, nicknamed “The White Swan”, “The Black Dolphin”, “The Vologda Coin”, “The Village of Harps”. Inside “The Black Eagle.”

Ekaterina Loushnikova Open Democracy Oct 2010 20min Permalink

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