We think of Silicon Valley as a nexus of tech moguls, innovators, power brokers and venture capitalists. But something bigger ...
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was at the airport on Thursday. In a move heavily trailed by the Indian media (thus ...
The lawsuit accusing Binance of helping terrorists reveals major failures in crypto oversight and side effects of ...
The core of the scheme is that the money launderers collect cash from criminals all over Europe, and swap it for the ...
Syria’s nearly 14-year-long civil war has changed shape. Though there is still fighting and instability, the political transition means many who fled are beginning to return home. Yet for Sara Kontar, ...
There was no specific tipping point that made Logan Lane get rid of her smartphone. One day, the thought just arrived. “I was like, I just can’t fucking do this anymore.” And she put away the device ...
There’s a particular satisfaction—and unease—that comes with watching a pattern you’ve tracked for years suddenly manifest in your own neighborhood, before your mayor-elect even takes office. We ...
As you may have noticed, I’ve been away for a couple of weeks. I spent my days off in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, in search of the legacy of the only famous person there has ever been with the same ...
There are cities that teach you to read between the lines, to notice the way the air shifts before history changes course. Beirut in 2008 was one of those cities. A familiar cast filled its glitzy ...
When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...