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Today marks the deadliest period for journalists in at least 30 years. Tomorrow promises to continue the trend. On April 1, the Israeli Knesset unanimously passed a law that allows the government to ban foreign broadcast media from operating within G...

The Looms We Have Lost

Today marks the deadliest period for journalists in at least 30 years. Tomorrow promises to continue the trend. On April 1, the Israeli Knesset unanimously passed a law that allows the government to ban foreign broadcast media from operating within G...

AI startups have an unexpected business partner: the tiny Caribbean island polity of Anguilla. In 1980, Anguilla, a territory of the United Kingdom, was awarded the .ai domain name by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This fairly arbitr...

New Power in Name Alone

AI startups have an unexpected business partner: the tiny Caribbean island polity of Anguilla. In 1980, Anguilla, a territory of the United Kingdom, was awarded the .ai domain name by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This fairly arbitr...

On September 2, in a village outside Chișinău, Moldova, a young woman, known to her associates as Ana Nastas, handed out a stack of anti-EU leaflets rife with misinformation that had been produced by Ilan Shor, a Russophilic Moldovan oligarch and p...

Chișinău at a Crossroads

On September 2, in a village outside Chișinău, Moldova, a young woman, known to her associates as Ana Nastas, handed out a stack of anti-EU leaflets rife with misinformation that had been produced by Ilan Shor, a Russophilic Moldovan oligarch and p...

French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Rabat, Morocco, on October 28, stepping into a city decked out in French and Moroccan flags. He arrived accompanied by a delegation of 130 people, including ministers, business leaders, and French-Moro...

The Sahara Shuffle

French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Rabat, Morocco, on October 28, stepping into a city decked out in French and Moroccan flags. He arrived accompanied by a delegation of 130 people, including ministers, business leaders, and French-Moro...

Ireland is your favorite multinational corporation’s favorite country. Why? Over the last 25 years, the country has molded itself into a leading corporate tax haven, shielding businesses with subsidiaries in Ireland from worldwide taxation. Drawing...

Buck of the Irish

Ireland is your favorite multinational corporation’s favorite country. Why? Over the last 25 years, the country has molded itself into a leading corporate tax haven, shielding businesses with subsidiaries in Ireland from worldwide taxation. Drawing...

The convenience of a cashless transaction is hard to resist. It promises the ease of paying for a coffee with the tap of your phone, of not having to remember to bring your wallet everywhere or go through the humbling process of testing your basic ar...

Keep Calm and Carry Cash

The convenience of a cashless transaction is hard to resist. It promises the ease of paying for a coffee with the tap of your phone, of not having to remember to bring your wallet everywhere or go through the humbling process of testing your basic ar...

In 2015, El Salvador presided as the “murder capital of the world” with the highest number of homicides per capita; today, it is one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a homicide rate lower than that of the United States. Over the pas...

El Salvador: The Chrysalis State

In 2015, El Salvador presided as the “murder capital of the world” with the highest number of homicides per capita; today, it is one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a homicide rate lower than that of the United States. Over the pas...

In Gjadër, Albania, towering barbed-wire fences enclose the many migrants who dream of a better life in Italy. The village’s stunning pastoral landscape and the tranquility of the grazing sheep are now disrupted by gray buildings with small, priso...

The Autocrat’s Golden Ticket

In Gjadër, Albania, towering barbed-wire fences enclose the many migrants who dream of a better life in Italy. The village’s stunning pastoral landscape and the tranquility of the grazing sheep are now disrupted by gray buildings with small, priso...