Get the lead out: Zambia’s toxic mine
A site that closed more than a quarter-century ago is still slowly poisoning the residents of Kabwe with lead; a class-action lawsuit is at last seeking redress. Our correspondent visits the ancient m...
21 Dec 202022min
Rehousing project: Bangladesh’s Rohingya
The country’s refugee camps are packed and squalid, so the government is moving perhaps 100,000 Rohingya Muslims to a tiny island. Will life for them improve? Military tactics can be misleading; somet...
18 Dec 202021min
And then, winter: ten years after the Arab Spring
A revolutionary conflagration a decade ago has almost entirely flickered out. We ask what happened to all the optimism and why real change has been so hard to achieve. A widely watched lawsuit reveals...
17 Dec 202023min
This market went a little piggy: a capital-raising frenzy
Astonishingly, companies have raised more capital this year than ever before. We ask how capital markets shook free amid the pandemic—and what will happen with all that cash now. Our correspondent fin...
16 Dec 202022min
Joe, College: Biden’s victory affirmed
America’s by-the-book electoral-college vote calmed concerns about another Trump-camp bid to overturn the election—but that is not to say the ructions are over. On an unannounced visit to a suspected ...
15 Dec 202021min
So long, and we’re keeping all the fish: Brexit
Britain’s divorce from the European Union still hinges on sticky matters of fishing rights and the enforcement of fair competition, and time is rapidly running out to strike a deal. India’s fantastica...
14 Dec 202018min
Taking the temperature: a climate chat with the UN chief
Ahead of a weekend meeting to assess and bolster the Paris Agreement, our correspondent speaks with Antonio Guterres about his reasons for cautious optimism. The founder of an upstart far-right Dutch ...
11 Dec 202020min
If you already joined ‘em, beat ‘em: Facebook gets sued
American regulators have put mergers that they approved years ago at the heart of antitrust lawsuits—a tricky bid to curb the social-media giant’s market power. We examine the surge of an artist-led p...
10 Dec 202021min
