Issue 14: Money

With every new crisis, the animosity towards financiers grows. History offers sage advice.

The Argentinian president looks to dollarize the economy.

President Gustavo Petro has made it a priority to transform the narcotics trade. The question now is how.

“How would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?”

Spain’s aging population is struggling with the digitalization of the financial system — and the far right is seizing the moment.

Seven years after El Salvador banned metal extraction, the bloody fight over mining appears poised to return.

“We dreamed that Iceland’s growth of a bit less than one centimeter per year would one day lead to an entire earth covered with Iceland.”

Turkey has expropriated ancestral lands to build “earthquake-proof” housing.