Transparency International has published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index and it has something important to tell us.

One reason for the failure to stop money laundering is that politicians love new policy announcements, but shun enforcing old ...

The White House snubs Georgia, seeks dividends in Armenia and Azerbaijan while undermining Russia in its backyard.

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 ...

There was no specific tipping point that made Logan Lane get rid of her smartphone. One day, the thought just arrived. “I was like, I just can’t fucking do this anymore.” And she put away the device ...

Syria’s nearly 14-year-long civil war has changed shape. Though there is still fighting and instability, the political transition means many who fled are beginning to return home. Yet for Sara Kontar, ...

It all started on impulse. I was lying in my bed, with the lights off, wallowing in grief over a long-distance breakup that had happened over the phone. Alone in my room, with only the sounds of the ...

There are cities that teach you to read between the lines, to notice the way the air shifts before history changes course. Beirut in 2008 was one of those cities. A familiar cast filled its glitzy ...

When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...

This article is an adapted extract from CAPTURED, our new podcast series with Audible about the secret behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover. Click here to listen. We’re moving slowly through the ...

Three years ago this week, as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, an extraordinary wave of global solidarity swept across the world. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities from London to ...