Reportage
The EU’s Outsourced Brutality
The EU has provided Ankara with at least 200 million euros in funding to set up and operate a vast network of removal centers, a joint investigation has found. Yet as Turkish sentiment turns against refugees, Erdogan's government is using the centers to detain, abuse and forcibly deport them.
Exploiting Disaster
Where natural disasters were once treated with a measure of bipartisanship, this presidential election has seen them turned into campaigning tools, fueled by an atmosphere of conspiratorial suspicion.
They Dreamed of Making It Big in Soccer. They Were Trafficked Instead
In West Africa, professional soccer holds out the hope of escape from poverty, unemployment and political instability. And each year, thousands of aspiring players are trafficked, paying money to fraudulent agents to attend tryouts that never existed.
Diamonds Brought Prosperity to Botswana. Women Workers Are Paying a Heavy Price
In interviews with more than two dozen current and former female employees across multiple diamond factories in Botswana, New Lines and The Fuller Project documented numerous violations of standards that De Beers says are the strictest in the industry, including filthy workplaces and sexual harassment.
Convicted Murderers Fought in Ukraine and Returned to Russia as Heroes
Russia has recruited convicts to fight in Ukraine. Some of those who made it back alive have become everyday heroes, welcomed with open arms and even celebrated by their country, where absolute loyalty to the motherland is the new moral code by which many Russians live.
While the World Watches Gaza, the West Bank Burns
In the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right minister of national security, pushed to relax gun-licensing requirements and increase the number of civilian security teams, while supplying them with assault rifles. The result has been an explosion in gun-toting settlers threatening Palestinians across the West Bank.
The Real Story of Donald Trump’s Mysterious ‘Abdul’
In the Sept. 10 presidential debate, former President Donald Trump made an opaque reference to a Taliban leader using the single name “Abdul,” leaving many observers puzzled and triggering a flood of memes on social media. Abdul is a real person, but Trump’s story seems to have been embellished.