The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, attempting to catch her daughter’s murderers in the border town of San Fernando.

In Belarus, a travel writer wrestles with his role.

A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?

Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.

Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.

On revisionist architecture.

Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?

In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?

A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.

Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

The history of civilian internment camps.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

Nine days in Wuhan.

Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, hikkomori shut-ins continue to search for direction in middle age.

The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.

In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.