Behind the Lines
An extraordinary feat of on the ground reporting, looking in gripping detail at America’s involvement in the Syrian conflict from its beginnings to the present.
Church vs. State
The role the church is playing, and having to play, in response to Philippine President Rodrige Duterte’s brutally violent war on drugs.
The Inside Story: How Theresa May’s Personal And Political Flaws Finally Forced Her Downfall
The Huffington Post’s Political Editor Paul Waugh provides plenty of background detail in this story charting the endgame of Theresa May’s time in office.
Europe from Left to Right
An analysis of recent election data in over 80,000 regions in Europe. Data journalism on an impressive scale that seeks to analyse the political landscape in countries across the continent.
Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden
The Swedish prime minister was gunned down with a single shot to the back whilst walking in the street with his wife. The murder took place in 1986, but has never been solved.
Want to build a far-right movement? Spain’s Vox party shows how.
A look at the slickly crafted messaging and rapid rise of Spain’s far-right party Vox.
Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect
This story posits the theory that Viktor Orbán’s assault on Central European University is part of a wider strategy of “liquidating the intelligentsia, draining the public of education, and molding a more pliant nation.”
Why Budapest, Warsaw, and Lithuania split themselves in two
A look at how EU funding is distributed to help less economically developed regions catch up with their more economically developed counterparts. Some countries are redrawing their internal boundaries in order to gain better access to this funding for less developed areas adjacent to their richer capitals. It’s an insightful piece with superior quality data visualisation deployed to tell the story of economic development in Europe.
Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret
A friendship between a guard and an inmate highlights some of the most pernicious aspects of the world’s most infamous detention facility. The piece is a fine example of in depth reporting.