I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S.

I’ve been writing this newsletter since 2020, and in my first edition I marvelled at the concept of the centi-billionaire, ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

It has become a theme of this newsletter to lay out what is needed to tackle financial crime, and then to point out how the U ...

While much of the media industry focused on the churn of headlines, we became increasingly interested in the undercurrents beneath them: the hidden systems, infrastructures and ideologies shaping ...

San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is chaotic. Sirens, music and loud conversations generate almost constant noise. In every direction, dozens of people are camped out, crouched outside tents or ...

This article is an adapted extract from CAPTURED, our new podcast series with Audible about the secret behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover. Click here to listen. We’re moving slowly through the ...

Today the Russian government is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism have a different story for us and a message for our era.

It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of results. Jeffrey Epstein’s international trafficking agents send him pictures and ...

In Tudun Biri, meetings happen under a large mango tree in a clearing in the center of the village. The bark on its trunk has peeled back in places, leaking sap — it has become a place of mourning.

Tech platforms run from Silicon Valley, and the handful of men behind them, often seem and act invincible. But a legal battle in Kenya is setting an important precedent for disrupting the Big Tech’s ...