Urban Dreams
A look at the plan to build an Indian state capital from scratch, the fifth such project and perhaps the most ambitious yet.
The Lost Children of ‘Runaway Train’
The 1991 music video for the smash hit by Soul Asylum featured images of runaway children. This thoughtful piece follows up on their stories a quarter of a century later.
He Had His Reasons
A piece looking at how murder and domestic violence is reported in the press, recounting a terrible recent case in County Cavan, Ireland.
How the sandwich consumed Britain
If you have been looking for a deep dive into the macroeconomics, microeconomics, design process, supply chain, and key players of the sandwich industry, then this is for you. A surprisingly engaging piece looking at a phenomenally successful £8bn industry, that will also teach you the meaning of the term “goblin caves”.
UK General Election Special
Our election special provides a range of pieces from different publications on the coming week’s UK election – offering information, analysis and opinion from different viewpoints. We’ll keep adding noteworthy pieces that are published in the coming days.
Dispatches from the Rap Wars
A sociologist spent 18 months living with gangs in Chicago fighting bitterly violent local turf wars, and simultaneously trying to make it big with rap tracks and on social media.
The Third Person
A story looking at the professionals hired by wives in China to deal with their husbands’ mistresses.
The Clam That Sank a Thousand Ships
The remarkable story of the shipworm, a wood eating mollusk that has plagued mariners for hundreds of years, and has had a resurgence due to a variety of factors including the large quantities of debris washed out to sea by the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Welcome to the Center of the Universe
A look at the work of the Deep Space Network, the nerve center for all communications between Earth and its “its robotic emissaries in deep space – anything from the moon and beyond”.