Despite an unhelpfully bombastic headline and some jarring phrases (the phrases that jar will probably vary depending on who is reading), this profile of the scourge of Cambridge Analytica, Carole Cadwalladr, is undeniably interesting.
A quick sweep of the key indicators that will act as the bellwethers of a future recession.
A look at dubious conclusions statistics can sometimes lead us to via murderous doctor Harold Shipman, aspirin and coin tosses.
A look at the underground prison economy in Louisiana State Penitentiary – a.k.a “Angola”.
Behind the scenes with the woman tasked with predicting who the next mass shooter will be based on their online behaviour.
The story behind the online message board 8chan: “an anonymous digital safe haven for the type of discussions that made many of its users unwelcome elsewhere on the web: abhorrent racism, violent misogyny, and rampant anti-Semitism.” The site is in the news again after the El Paso shooting as the shooter used it to post an anti-immigration screed just a few minutes before opening fire.
The story of India’s Green Gang, “a gang of hundreds — no, thousands — of women, almost all of them poor and low-caste”. Their mission – to take on ” anyone who dared to hurt a woman, including violent in-laws, philandering husbands, domestic abusers, land-grabbers, bootleggers, molesters, and rapists.”
A profile of the celebrated economist Raj Chetty, and his studies of economic (im)mobility at scale.
A Manchester Evening News journalist assesses the “the original northern powerhouse.” and finds great positivity, community, and enterprise amidst “an uphill struggle” caused at least in part due to lack of focus from central Government.
Three stories examining the coastal border areas between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, where tourist areas, police violence, conservative Christian communities, and the drug trade all mix.