Isabelle Mayault 5/2/23 Isabelle Mayault 5/2/23

Space Junk

Why is the European Union investing in astral garbage machines?

Sir Hilary Beckles 4/25/23 Sir Hilary Beckles 4/25/23

The Case for Reparations in the Caribbean

And who should pay.

Fatema Ahmed 4/25/23 Fatema Ahmed 4/25/23

The Other Crown

Why are Ethiopian jewels still in a London museum?

Lorena De Vita 4/18/23 Lorena De Vita 4/18/23

What Happened at Wassenaar?

As calls for reparations gain momentum, public attention has turned back to the 1952 German-Israeli Holocaust negotiations.

Breno Pires (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 4/11/23 Breno Pires (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 4/11/23

Brazil After Bolsonaro

After the insurrection, the nation’s Republicano lawmakers are distancing themselves from the former president—and looking for their next leader.

Luigi Mazza (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 4/11/23 Luigi Mazza (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 4/11/23

Cleaning Up the Insurrection

The art restorers putting the Brazilian Senate building back together.

Eve Fairbanks 4/4/23 Eve Fairbanks 4/4/23

The Dispossession of District Six

The complex aftermath of reparations in Cape Town.

Caitlin L. Chandler 3/28/23 Caitlin L. Chandler 3/28/23

Skeletons from Kilimanjaro

East African families seek to reclaim the remains of their ancestors from German colonial collections.

Youssef Rakha 3/28/23 Youssef Rakha 3/28/23

Past Plunder

The reparative fictions of Egyptian novelist Sonhallah Ibrahim.

The Reckoning Project 3/28/23 The Reckoning Project 3/28/23

“Let Retribution Come Soon”

Three witness testimonies from the invasion of Ukraine.

Zsuzsa Bodnár 3/21/23 Zsuzsa Bodnár 3/21/23

“Suddenly the Air Starts to Sparkle”

As South Korean and Chinese battery makers break ground in Hungary, locals face the environmental costs.

Ilya Gridneff 3/21/23 Ilya Gridneff 3/21/23

Parakeet Ponds

The exotic, and possibly invasive, birds of Brussels.

Zoë Deceuninck 3/7/23 Zoë Deceuninck 3/7/23

11 Billion Barrels

ExxonMobil's discovery of oil off the coast of Guyana could lift many residents out of poverty, but some fear extraction could exacerbate the country's exposure to climate change.

Sebastián López Brach 3/7/23 Sebastián López Brach 3/7/23

Hombre Muerto

Photos inside Argentina’s lithium industry.

Charlotte van den Broeck (Tr. David McKay) 2/28/23 Charlotte van den Broeck (Tr. David McKay) 2/28/23

The Cloud Factory

Belgium prepares to take its nuclear reactors offline.

Inna Zolotukhina & Iryna Yaroshynska (Tr. Dominique Hoffman) 2/28/23 Inna Zolotukhina & Iryna Yaroshynska (Tr. Dominique Hoffman) 2/28/23

Life in Occupied Ukraine

Two first-hand accounts of the fragile conditions at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Jessi Jezewska Stevens 2/28/23 Jessi Jezewska Stevens 2/28/23

Party at Das Literaturhaus

A culture diary through the German literary scene, where markets don’t exist (except where they do), and everything is in crisis (except the books themselves).