With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to become the Switzerland of Central Asia that the Swiss ambassador once joked ...

In 2017, the London Review of Books published a commentary from an anonymous young woman with a prolonged illness that had seriously impaired her ability to care for herself. The situation was ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

Inside Smart Aqkol’s “situation room.” Photos courtesy of the author. Kirpichnikov explained that residents can connect their gas meters to their bank accounts and set up automatic gas payments. This ...

Besmir Billa playing a traditional Albanian instrument, called the cifteli, in Kukes. All the while, there is a parallel reality playing out far from home, one that the people of Kukes see in glimpses ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

The silhouettes moved so quickly they blurred out of focus in seconds. Squinting, I could barely make them out from where I sat, in a border patrol truck in Nogales, Arizona, overlooking a stretch of ...

He procured almost all the beavers from Gerhard Schwab, a wildlife manager based in Bavaria known as “the Pablo Escobar of beavers.” Over the years, Schwab has bred beavers and helped numerous ...

Memettursun Omer beneath the northern lights in Kirkenes Omer, 31, is one of very few Uyghurs to escape Xinjiang in recent years. He’s fled almost as far as it is possible to go: to Kirkenes, a remote ...

While the use of open source intelligence has been praised by law enforcement and investigative journalists for its crime-solving efficiency, public data can be dangerous when used in haste on social ...