January 27, 2017 /
Atlantic Council
Jon Sawyer
The Middle East is not condemned to a debilitating cycle of conflict. There is nothing inevitable or unfixable about what ails the states of the region today.
January 26, 2017 /
Delo
Meta Krese, Jošt Franko
Article about the Global path of cotton in the Saturday supplement of the biggest Slovenian daily Delo
January 23, 2017 /
National Geographic
Cynthia Gorney, Amy Toensing
In some cultures, the death of a husband has meant exile, vulnerability, and abuse. But bereaved women are beginning to fight back.
January 23, 2017 /
Roads & Kingdoms
Joshua Kucera
Where's the Real Border Between Europe and Asia?
January 21, 2017 /
Independent Online
Mark Olalde
Brought to informal settlements among coal piles and coal-fired power stations by the possibility of employment, residents in Mpumalanga face the constant complications surrounding relocation.
January 20, 2017 /
Granta
Ben Mauk
Ben Mauk visits Poland to investigate the role of the foreigner in a country that has embraced illiberal populism.
January 20, 2017 /
International Business Times
Martin Fletcher
Ben Freeth's family farm was Zimbabwe's biggest mango producer until Robert Mugabe's 'war vets' seized it in 2009. Now, as millions of Zimbabweans survive on foreign food aid, it produces nothing.
January 19, 2017 /
The New York Review of Books
James Fenton
Nearly 6,000 drug dealers and users in the Philippines have been summarily executed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in June.
January 19, 2017 /
Harper's
May Jeong
What will await Trump in Afghanistan?
January 19, 2017 /
Outside
Erik Vance
How our minds push our bodies to defy expectations, beliefs, and even our own biology—in short, to make miracles.