Is China the World’s New Colonial Power?
A piece documenting China’s complex and ever-increasing influence, investment and population in Africa.
World Chess Has a Big Problem
The top tier chess tour is rife with unsavoury sponsors and political intrigue.
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
Before working for Donald Trump, Cambridge Analytica worked for Senator Ted CruzÕs campaign against him for the Republican nomination. This story goes back to that campaign and asserts that the company’s skills lay not in a uniquely effective use of data, but in a willingness to go where others wouldn’t and an ability to take business development to the level of an “internal Ponzi scheme”.
The unfinished business of immunotherapy
A look at the work of an immunotherapy pioneer seeking to advance the cancer treatments he helped to develop.
What the Trees Say
An illuminating piece by the noted arborist Thomas Pakenham about books about trees, including one documenting their remarkable subterranean communication systems.
How China is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
Fossil finds in China lead to conflicting views of human origins.
The Great Chinese Art Heist
An investigation into a series of thefts of Chinese art from museums around the world examines the rumours in some quarters that they are being ordered by the Chinese government, in an attempt to repatriate their looted artistic heritage.
Streetscapes – Mozart, Marx and a Dictator
Die Zeit created a database of over 450,000 street names in Germany. This resulting analysis, complete with illuminating visualisations, provides insights into GermanyÕs social and political history.