In Donald Trump’s famously transactional foreign policy, the critical resources of sovereign countries, from oil to rare ...

A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it’s about trust and how healthy societies can’t exist without it; and ...

When he saw the Tunisian coast guard coming, Fabrice Ngo knew he wouldn’t make it to Italy that day. The young Cameroonian had pushed off from the shore of the Tunisian city of Sfax in a small metal ...

Listen to this story on SoundCloud or by downloading the Audm app. On a snowy January day in 2016, a small crowd assembled in central Kyiv to honor the fight against the far right. The gathering of ...

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 ...

The rumor spread like a storm. One moment it was a whisper in a small Ohio town; the next, it was tearing across newspaper headlines and through talk shows nationwide: Haitians in Springfield were ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of results. Jeffrey Epstein’s international trafficking agents send him pictures and ...

“My issue with the French language,” Khadim said, pouring sticky-sweet, minty tea into my glass, “is that I love hating it.” His words struck a chord: I realized that I had the same relationship with ...

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 ...

In the flatlands of Italy’s Po Valley, the decommissioned Caorso nuclear power plant can be seen for miles, the reactor looming into the sky. When Alessandro Maffini, now an assistant professor at the ...

Two servicemen sit in an underground missile launch facility. Before them is a matrix of buttons and bulbs glowing red, white and green. Old-school screens with blocky, all-capped text beam beside ...