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An essay on how we misremember our youth.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Saveur Jul 2017 Permalink
If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.
Joshua Hammer GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
As a nation unwinds, Leopoldo López, the opposition’s most prominent leader, sits under house arrest and contemplates what might still be possible.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Mar 2018 35min Permalink
The profits and controversy of posthumous celebrity.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Feb 2018 35min Permalink
Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?
Sean Flynn Smithsonian Feb 2018 30min Permalink
Reconstructing an ancient African civilization heretofore mostly ignored.
Amy Maxmen Undark Magazine Feb 2018 15min Permalink
An investigation into the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency.
Adrian Chen New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 20min Permalink
What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.
Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Feb 2018 Permalink
Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.
Matthew Campbell Bloomberg Business Feb 2018 20min Permalink
The strange history of border fortifications.
Lauren Markham Harper's Feb 2018 20min Permalink
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
Mark O'Connell The Guardian Feb 2018 25min Permalink
An Afghanistan love story.
James Verini The Atavist Magazine Feb 2014 1h Permalink
“Choice is a great burden. The call to invent one’s life, and to do it continuously, can sound unendurable. Totalitarian regimes aim to stamp out the possibility of choice, but what aspiring autocrats do is promise to relieve one of the need to choose. This is the promise of “Make America Great Again”—it conjures the allure of an imaginary past in which one was free not to choose.”
Masha Gessen NY Review of Books Jan 2018 15min Permalink
A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.
May Jeong The Intercept Jan 2018 40min Permalink
Inside the world of dark tourism, where for just $2,500 you too could be responsible for a geopolitical calamity.
Kent Russell Huffington Post Highline Jan 2018 50min Permalink
Humanity has 30 years to find out.
Charles C. Mann The Atlantic Jan 2018 25min Permalink
A Venezuelan cop who had previously starred in an action movie stole a helicopter and fired on the Supreme Court. He became a rebel folk hero, moving amongst safe houses with a small band of followers, until he was killed in a shoot-out that he broadcast live on Instagram.
Nicholas Casey New York Times Jan 2018 10min Permalink
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Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.
Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Jan 2018 15min Permalink
How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.
Adam Entous, Evan Osnos New Yorker Jan 2018 20min Permalink
From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.
Lauren Hilgers New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Jan 2018 40min Permalink
Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.
Mara Hvistendahl Wired Dec 2017 25min Permalink
A young couple, their warring families, and the risks of marrying for love in India.
Mansi Choksi Harper's Dec 2017 30min Permalink
What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink
“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”
Julia Ioffe The Atlantic Dec 2017 Permalink