There are now several books about the 2007-8 financial crisis, the best of which, in my opinion, is Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed’.

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In September, the International Criminal Court will conduct a confirmation of charges hearing against warlord Joseph Kony.

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Missouri librarians fear prosecution under Senate Bill 775, a new law ordering jail time for distributing “sexually explicit material” to minors.

How one Uyghur man fled Xinjiang via the notorious smugglers' road and broke out of a Thai prison.

An underground network of wildlife enthusiasts and their billionaire backers claim they’re restoring Europe’s biodiversity. But some scientists say they could destroy it.

In small-town Kazakhstan, an experiment with the “smart city” model has some residents smiling. But it also signals the start of a new mass surveillance era for the Central Asian nation.

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Russia is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The Gulag survivors have a different story and a message for our era.

Meet the Russian neo-Nazis fighting for Ukraine. Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Surveillance technology has brought U.S. immigration enforcement away from the border itself and onto the bodies of people seeking to cross it.