Until the Sun Comes Up
For an overnight shift reporter in America’s murder capital, the beat is an education in violence and its aftermath, marked by powerful snapshots of grief.
Dark Tourism at the DMZ
Since the 1960s, the checkpoint separating North and South Korea has been a zoo — a dangerous zoo.
The Last Prisoner of Ilha Grande
ILHA GRANDE, Brazil
It was 1960, and Julio de Almeida had been locked away for two years in a hellish prison called Cândido Mendes on...
We left Medium. Here’s why.
A little over a year ago, we decided to try publishing Latterly exclusively on Medium.com, a popular blogging platform. At the time, Medium was...
In Palermo, women are slaves to a dark underworld
Sicily’s manic, multicultural capital is buckling under the weight of a migrant crisis. Meanwhile, a new criminal enterprise is laying roots in its ancient heart, working with Mafiosi to traffick drugs and women whose lives are being destroyed.
The new caliphate
Last May two brothers claimed a Philippine city for ISIS. It was a horror centuries in the making: a fatal cocktail of failed politics, colonialism and global terror. Could it happen again?
The longest journey home
As many as one million migrants are being held against their will in Libya as hostages and slaves to armed gangs. Europe wants to keep it that way.
Tell me what resistance looks like
The early opposition to American far-right populism has been hampered by division and despair. What’s next for the resistance?