Myanmar has gone from having 0.2% of the population online in 2011 to an estimated 20% today, with most of the growth taking place in the last two years. A story covering what happens when several million people with no prior exposure to the internet all sign up at the same time. Such is its allure that print magazines called ‘Facebook’ and ‘The Internet’ are produced for those that can’t afford to make the switch.
An investigative report into the world of arbitration at the ISDS, an increasingly influential supranational legal body for global corporations and nations.
The dark and unsettling story of a case of suspected Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome that had tragic consequences.
Russian national Maria Butina has recently been indicted on conspiracy charges in the US. She appears to have spent years cultivating contacts amongst Republican lawmakers, particularly focused around the issue of gun rights.
This piece goes in search of a genius who went to Harvard aged 15, wrote comic songs that were a huge hit and with which he toured the world, then almost entirely vanished from the stage. Talking to People magazine in 1982, as ever he had the best words to describe some of what had changed “Things I once thought were funny are scary – now I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava.”
A look at how the romance fiction genreÕs politics are evolving in the era of #MeToo and Trump.
A look at how technology is enabling advanced surveillance of minority Uighurs in China.