Fan Bingbing is one of the most recognisable faces in China’s movie industry. So it sent huge ripples through the entertainment world when, for a part of 2018, she disappeared. The story highlights the tightrope on which many of China’s new elite walk – “You play ball, or you are screwed. So you play ball.”
A survival story about a group of young men from New York in their early twenties who were on an expedition to Alaska when the weather turned bad and things went very wrong.
A local news story that became an unexpected viral hit is used as a way to examine the algorithm that influences what people see on Facebook, a place where many people (43% of American adults per the Pew Research Center) continue to get their news.
A look at Donald Trump’s prospects of surviving the Mueller enquiry, and his long track record of living life right on the edge of the precipice.
The extraordinary, grisly story of a corrupt funeral home and crematorium business run by a family team.
Behind the scenes in the business of fine art shipping.
A none too flattering profile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a man right at the heart of the American political system.
A story about the recovery of an aircraft carrier that had been sunk in the Coral Sea during the Second World War, replete with original documents and photographs of the sinking ship and the recovery mission.
A look at the story, and writing, behind historic white nationalist movements in the USA. The piece concludes with the following reflection – “When Americans abandon their commitment to pluralism, the world notices, and catastrophe follows.”