This week: Anand Giridharadas on the Epstein operating system, Bellingcat's shadow fleet investigation, and Joshua Hunt on sumo and Japan's far-right anxiety. Plus Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or thriller, Louis Theroux in the manosphere, and the story of El Mencho's death.
This week: the human cost of the Philippines' war on drugs, what AI will do to jobs, a TikTok-fueled parrot black market, plus our latest investigation into the elite fixers who help billionaires disappear.
A tip led us to a mysterious Dubai fund. What we found was a network connecting a money launderer, an insolvent UK company, a £100,000 political donation, the Dubai ruling family, and the UAE Finance Minister.
This week: the slow murder of The Washington Post, a family lost in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years, Muslims frozen out of the banking system, plus Starman, Lucy Letby, and the ex-gay movement's poster boy.
This week: Bloomberg reveals how Mojtaba Khamenei built a £100 million property empire while Iran buckles under sanctions. Plus: tech's pivot to defense, a documentary about press freedom, and more.
This week: America's gambling epidemic in Harper's, Jon Lee Anderson on Venezuela's uncertain future, the AI web eating itself, plus Dwayne Johnson's Oscar-nominated transformation, Mel Brooks at 99, and three podcasts you need to hear.
This week: Sam Knight's brilliant New Yorker deep dive on WhatsApp's global takeover, a philosophical takedown of AI consciousness hype, plus A24's raw motherhood fever dream, Victorian bare-knuckle boxing, and three must-watch documentaries.
This week's picks share a common thread: people pursuing truth in systems designed to obscure it. From veterans fighting for healthcare to drug kingpins in Dubai, from AI chatbots replacing doctors to comedy legends navigating show business.
