A note to our subscribers: Thank you so much for sticking with Whale Hunting over the last year. We've been publishing for just over one year and this is our 67th post. We are more excited about Whale Hunting than ever and are planning on expanding our coverage
It's a busy period for Project Brazen and we're super-excited to share with you what we've been working on, including my new book THE REBEL AND THE KINGDOM. It's the product of many years of work, but especially the last two. For
As a teenager, Mohammed bin Salman was obsessed by powerful men like Alexander the Great. No matter that he was so far down the line of succession that his elder half-brothers and cousins would guffaw at the prospect of him becoming king (or becoming anything), while sending him to the
We've long known about some of Jho Low's Chinese business activities because a few of them were simply registered in his name. Ever since the F.B.I. and other global investigators began digging into the 1MDB scandal in 2015, Jho spent increasing amounts of time
For the past six months, the team at Project Brazen have been working on a kaleidoscopic exploration of last year's events in Afghanistan. The footage of desperate Afghans clinging to the sides of cargo airplanes seems eons ago now, but the stories of escape and the Taliban'
“Should we be resigning from all Russian yachts?”
This question was posed by an anonymous participant in an Instagram Q&A hosted in March by Nautilus International, a union for mariners, as the United Kingdom, European Union, and United States began sanctioning Russian oligarchs and setting out to freeze
Looming over some of the great scandals of recent years is a man who loves big yachts.
Surprised? No, I didn't think so.
The man I'm referring to is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, a princeling once seen as on an upward trajectory as the
SICPA is a Lausanne-based family business that makes special ink for banknotes. Often probed but never convicted, SICPA keeps finding ways to dominate the color-shifting ink market.
