How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money
A piece looking at the influx of Russian money into the UK.
A piece looking at the influx of Russian money into the UK.
A look at a project to teach coding to former miners in Appalachian coal country. The project was born in part out of a dismissive comment made by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and its popularity has confounded stereotypes.
The story of man’s uneasy relationship with the moon, culminating in planned nuclear attacks on it by both Soviet and American governments during the Cold War. http://www.bit.ly/atlantic-moon
A look at the way in which many Cubans get access to the international culture that has historically been denied to them – a weekly delivery of films, TV and other content on a USB stick.
This eloquent piece looks at the sexual harassment allegations against Senator Al Franken and uses them as a springboard to examine humanity’s long history of identifying trustworthiness as a male trait and duplicity as its female counterpart – via Aristotle, Galen, Jezebel, Cassandra, Hamlet and others.
Is a passport a tool of individual freedom or state restriction and regulation? This piece looks to answer that question and examines the history of identity documentation.
Betting shops are ubiquitous on Britain’s high streets. They can be very dangerous places to work.
A look at the work of Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes.
An interview with the woman tasked with understanding what people find attractive.
An investigative report into the world of arbitration at the ISDS, an increasingly influential supranational legal body for global corporations and nations.