ISSUE 16: SPIES

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ISSUE 16: SPIES ✺

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Jörg Diehl, et al.
Reporting
The Most Wanted Man in Europe
Jörg Diehl, et al.
Reporting

How the former Chief Operating Officer of Wirecard stole two billion euros from the company and became a Russian spy.

Jörg Diehl, et al.
Reporting
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The Most Wanted Man in Europe
Jörg Diehl, et al.
Reporting
The Most Wanted Man in Europe
Jörg Diehl, et al.
Reporting

How the former Chief Operating Officer of Wirecard stole two billion euros from the company and became a Russian spy.

Jörg Diehl, et al.
Reporting
Inside Germany’s Taxpayer Funded Neo-Nazi Networks
Jacob Kushner
Essay
Inside Germany’s Taxpayer Funded Neo-Nazi Networks
Jacob Kushner
Essay

The trouble with the country’s far-right informant apparatus.

Jacob Kushner
Essay
A Shadow Over Svalbard
Kenneth R. Rosen
Reporting
A Shadow Over Svalbard
Kenneth R. Rosen
Reporting

Once a haven for international cooperation, trust on the Norwegian archipelago is disappearing — and so are the rights of its residents.

Kenneth R. Rosen
Reporting
Erdoğan’s Relentless Campaign Against Writers
Kaya Genç
Essay
Erdoğan’s Relentless Campaign Against Writers
Kaya Genç
Essay

The legal case against Elif Shafak is part of the president’s wider crackdown on Turkey’s academics and press freedom.

Kaya Genç
Essay

MORE ISSUE 16 PIECES COMING SOON

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Letters on Exile
Scholastique Mukasonga & Max Lobe (Tr. Katie Assef)
Letters
Letters on Exile
Scholastique Mukasonga & Max Lobe (Tr. Katie Assef)
Letters

“What can I do, I will always be, at heart, an emigrant — but what lessons have I drawn from it?”

Scholastique Mukasonga & Max Lobe (Tr. Katie Assef)
Letters
Paris
Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý)
Fiction
Paris
Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý)
Fiction

“With every step my target seemed even more energetic, while I had to thread my way through a host of towering Northern European tourists who stopped every few minutes to aim their cameras.”

Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý)
Fiction

OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS

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Crimes of Starvation
Alex de Waal, Michael Fakhri, & Sarah Nouwen
Crimes of Starvation
Alex de Waal, Michael Fakhri, & Sarah Nouwen

In conflicts around the world, food and hunger are used as tools of war. What's the role of international law in addressing human-inflicted starvation?

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Alex de Waal, Michael Fakhri, & Sarah Nouwen
Thailand’s “Land of Checkpoints”
Kong Rithdee
Thailand’s “Land of Checkpoints”
Kong Rithdee

In Bangkok, the Israel-Hamas War threatens to curdle domestic tensions.

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Kong Rithdee

INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE

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Speaking Out Under Bukele
Speaking Out Under Bukele

A conversation with Danielle Mackey, whose reporting on environmental activism in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele was published in our Money issue.

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The Rise of CNews
The Rise of CNews

A conversation with Christopher Clark, whose article on the French far-right media outlet was published in our Pundits issue.

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JOURNALISM

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How to Survive a Coup
Emily Fishbein & Nu Nu Lusan
How to Survive a Coup
Emily Fishbein & Nu Nu Lusan

Four young women share stories of survival under military rule in Myanmar.

Emily Fishbein & Nu Nu Lusan
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The AI Accomplice
Snigdha Poonam
The AI Accomplice
Snigdha Poonam

“Do you still love me knowing that I’m an assassin?” “Absolutely I do.”

Snigdha Poonam
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‘Peace Means I Will Lose My Job’
Tania Roettger
‘Peace Means I Will Lose My Job’
Tania Roettger

How the northern German village of Unterlüß became dependent on the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall.

Tania Roettger

ESSAYS

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Memory Machines
Jessica Traynor
Memory Machines
Jessica Traynor

Data centers have proliferated across Ireland, at great cost.

Jessica Traynor
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Chokepoint Politics
Jatin Dua
Chokepoint Politics
Jatin Dua

Global maritime shipping is riddled with obstacles that slow down logistics, some of which are intentionally implemented to increase profit.

Jatin Dua
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What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
Eve Fairbanks
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
Eve Fairbanks

The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

Eve Fairbanks

POETRY

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The Orange Tree
Dong Li
The Orange Tree
Dong Li

“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”

Dong Li

BULLETIN FROM BABEL

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The Norway Model
Ida Lødemel Tvedt
The Norway Model
Ida Lødemel Tvedt

How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.

Ida Lødemel Tvedt
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The Kurdish Ulysses
Kaya Genç
The Kurdish Ulysses
Kaya Genç

Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.

Kaya Genç
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My Literary Breakup
Elisabeth Åsbrink
My Literary Breakup
Elisabeth Åsbrink

Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.

Elisabeth Åsbrink