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 ...

The United Kingdom has taken over the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global standard-setter on tackling money laundering, and seems determined to keep calm and carry on despite the ...

Julia E, an 18-year-old influencer from Germany, was hanging out with her family on the Palm Jumeirah beach when she heard a blast and saw a fireball erupt into the sky. She knew tension was mounting ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his delegation visited Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters in California last week, they were welcomed with a board reminiscent of Facebook’s desktop ...

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 ...

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 ...

In April last year I was in Perugia, at the annual international journalism festival. I was sitting in a panel session about whether AI marked the end of journalism, when a voice note popped up on my ...

On July 25, Max Blumenthal, the founder and editor of the far-left news site The Grayzone, went on Going Underground, a current affairs show broadcast by the Russian state-controlled TV channel RT. On ...

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 ...