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.”
The second instalment in the extraordinary life of Josephine Bonaparte that takes her from marriage to Napoleon to Empress of France.
A visualisation with accompanying narrative that examines the data behind the two million bombing missions the US undertook on Southeast Asian countries in the 1960s and 70s.
The story behind Harper Lee’s unpublished project The Reverend, a true crime book about a serial killer from Alabama. The piece outlines Lee’s keen urge to get to the truth of matters, and separate that truth from opinion. This was a concern that amongst other things led her to lament Truman Capote’s approach in a letter to The New Yorker’s fact-checker – “Truman’s having long ago put fact out of business had made me despair of ‘factual’ accounts of anything.”
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.
A sobering look at the challenges facing the Casa Blanca group of ex-gang members trying to keep their neighbourhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras free of gangs.
A clear, concise primer on particle physics, concerning itself with both its theory and practical applications and deploying interactive tools and examples throughout to help illuminate the topic. The author eloquently makes the case for his discipline in his conclusion – “Particle physics helps us unveil the mysteries of the universe, and has let us discern the basic components of matter and the basic forces which govern the universe as we know it so far.”
A look back at the time when Amazon launched a transformative product, Prime. It’s a time that seems hard to imagine now, when Amazon was not an all-conquering behemoth and “there wasn’t a blind faith that every Jeff idea was going to be a home run”.
The tale of the epochal, fierce business war between increasingly sophisticated hand dryers and paper towels for primacy in the public bathroom.
As the author of this piece puts it – “What connects Leonardo da Vinci, a Russian oligarch, a Baton Rouge sheet metal man, a Saudi prince, several major museums, and a Swiss tycoon?’. The answer – Salvator Mundi.