Reportage
Chasing American Dreams
A family from China’s eastern Jiangsu province risked all to come to America, flying across the world and traversing the dangerous Darien Gap before crossing the U.S. border and seeking asylum. Despite the anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration, the family is now focused on building a new life.
An Open Wound
At least 11,000 people across six European Union countries were subjected to compulsory sterilization between 1972 and 2025 as a prerequisite for legal gender recognition, an investigation by New Lines and Investigate Europe reveals.
The Disputes Over African Leaders’ Funerals
Over two months after his death, former Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s body remains unburied, as his family and the Zambian state fight over his final resting place. Similar disputes across Africa have shown that leaders’ burials are rarely just about graves; they are about who gets to define history.
Uruguay’s Project Neptuno Is Dead, but Questions Remain
In July, Uruguay cancelled Project Neptuno, intended to secure Montevideo’s water supply following recent droughts. The controversial private-sector plan faced opposition over its constitutionality, environmental risks and high costs — and its revised, public-led replacement also has its critics.
With a Dash of Doubt, the ‘Mushroom Murders’ Case Leaves Some Watchers Craving More
A woman protagonist, a poisoning, and lingering doubt about motive and guilt — the story of “mushroom murderer” Erin Patterson, convicted in July for killing four in-laws by serving poisonous mushrooms, has the ingredients of a true crime thriller. Here are the facts of the case as revealed in the trial.
How Israel Is Funding Settler Violence To Overrun Palestinian Villages in the West Bank
For decades, West Bank Palestinians have remained determined to stay on their land, even as Israel made the region nearly uninhabitable with movement restrictions, depletion of resources, home demolitions, land seizures and army raids. Now, waves of violent attacks perpetrated by settler militias are forcibly displacing entire Palestinian communities.
Africa’s AI Strongmen
AI-generated videos of men like Ibrahim Traoré, Assimi Goïta, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo are going viral not because people are being fooled but because they tap into something deeper: a real hunger for strong, authentic African leadership.