In August, 2021, thirty-two Afghans who had fled their country just before the Taliban took over arrived at the border, hoping to claim asylum. Poland refused to process…
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Read more In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never EndedIn late summer, Yoon learned that ICE had moved Jim to its Alexandria Staging Facility, in central Louisiana, from which detainees tend to get deported. Yoon contacted ICE…
Read more Disappeared to a Foreign Prison“What kind of power?” I asked. “All kinds of power,” he said and smiled. In June, when Trump announced that he had brought peace to eastern Congo, he…
Read more Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?Landsvirkjun, which had paid for most of the I.D.D.P. work, decided that it needed financial support to drill more exploratory wells. “We said, ‘We’re just a small energy…
Read more Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyUnder the threat of censorship and other forms of menace (the Trump Administration this year has so far fired the Archivist of the United States and the Librarian…
Read more What Was the American Revolution For?The collaboration between certain MAGA influencers and animal-rights activists has drawn out the most confrontational tendencies within each camp. This summer, Loomer and White Coat Waste took aim…
Read more The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights MovementUsing this location had personal benefits: on the days he was filming at the house, he could see his daughters for breakfast and put them to bed. Trier…
Read more Joachim Trier Has Put Oslo on the Cinematic MapMost of the Super Cartel’s top members have since been brought to justice. Taghi was arrested in Dubai in 2019 and deported to the Netherlands, whose ports have…
Read more The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in DubaiScott Johnson’s murder case became synonymous with a movement to redress anti-gay violence in Australia. But the evidence that led to a man’s conviction has never been made…
Read more Did a Brother’s Quest for Justice Go Too Far?One of Mamdani’s more poetic campaign motifs is “public excellence”—the idea that socialists need not compromise on quality-of-life concerns. In the past few months, Mamdani has attempted to…
Read more What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power“I’m not even sure I remember that,” Russell said, sipping a beer. Too late: Rhys was already reliving the conflict. “I was outraged at the time,” he said.…
Read more Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TVThe following week, I drove west from Miami toward the Gulf of Mexico—Trump’s “Gulf of America.” After the last row of strip malls and subdivisions, the Everglades took…
Read more Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?Instead, he focussed on a much different project: a basilica that was to rise on the outskirts of the burgeoning city. He wasn’t the project’s original architect—a more…
Read more Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch?After knitting and inspection, the items went upstairs for washing. They came out thicker and fluffier than before. Each item was then tagged, ironed, and inspected again. In…
Read more Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global DominanceA few months after their arrival, Moises, a skilled electrician and handyman, earned enough money to pay a sixteen-hundred-dollar deposit on a one-bedroom apartment. He worked two jobs—on…
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