How mercenary hackers sway litigation battles
It is an open secret that there are some private investigators who use Indian hacker groups to target opposition in litigation battles
Invade Haiti, Wall Street urged. The US obliged
Under heavy pressure from National City Bank, Citigroup’s predecessor, the Americans elbowed the French aside and became the dominant power in Haiti for decades to come
The root of Haiti’s misery: Reparations to enslavers
For generations after independence, Haitians were forced to pay the descendants of their former slave masters from Brazil, Russia, Germany, France
The former chancellor who became Putin’s man in Germany
Schröder, who is paid almost $1 million a year by Russian-controlled energy companies, has become a pariah
The making of Vladimir Putin
The 22-year arc of the Russian president’s exercise of power is a study in audacity
The one item they had to take when these Afghans fled
The items that tens of thousands of Afghans chose during the frantic dash to get out of their country last summer now constitute the only tangible ties to the world they ...
A broken system, and
a death on the tracks
Martial Simon, mentally ill and homeless, spent years in and out of hospitals before being accused of shoving Michelle Go in front of a subway train
Who owns Scotland?
Climate-savvy millionaires are buying up huge areas of the Scottish Highlands and transforming how it is managed, rekindling debates about who owns Scotland’s land
The most memorable
sports moments of 2021
Most of them happened off the courts and playing fields, when the competitions were over and the athletes were at their most human
Quietly equipping a brutal military
For all their efforts to differentiate themselves from the drug lords and business cronies who dominated Myanmar’s economy, the Kyaw Thaungs were quietly equipping one of...
