In 2019, Germany formally classified a nativist movement as extremist. In 2026, the movement’s ideals are standard mainstream ...

I am, I freely admit, more interested in the “cash in circulation” statistics published by major central banks than most ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

This story is part of our Complicating Colonialism series, which explores how unfinished conversations about the past play out in our daily lives and shape our collective future. Read more from this ...

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

We think of Silicon Valley as a nexus of tech moguls, innovators, power brokers and venture capitalists. But something bigger and more ideological is unfolding in the Valley — the building of an ...

A few years ago, a Tibetan journalist living abroad received a cryptic invitation to coffee from a man who claimed to be a childhood friend. The name didn’t ring a bell to the reporter, who covered ...

In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues with passersby outside of a grocery store, ...

On October 27, a rainy Friday evening in Berlin, as Israel bombed Gaza with new intensity before the launch of its ground invasion, I arrived at Alexanderplatz for a rally that had already been ...

Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the least talked about and scrutinized.

Two servicemen sit in an underground missile launch facility. Before them is a matrix of buttons and bulbs glowing red, white and green. Old-school screens with blocky, all-capped text beam beside ...