A stateless teenager wipes a table clean at a restaurant on May 23, 2024 in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia. Many stateless teenagers and children find jobs to help support their families, but are often paid a fraction of what Malaysian nationals can earn.
Politics & History

Born Without a Country

In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality.
Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, 1908
Arts & Culture

Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism

A fateful visit to a market in Moscow entirely upended Tolstoy’s view on life and society—and changed the trajectory of his work and purpose.
United States flag pointing Washington in cheap plastic globe. Shallow depth of field, focus on flag
Politics & History

What Is Isolationism?

The history and politics of an often-maligned foreign policy concept.
Police find bog body dated over 2,000 years in Bellaghy. Police Service of Northern Ireland
Education & Society

A Body in the Bog

The bog is where forensics and archaeology meet to solve “cold cases.”
Robert Mitchum aiming gun over car in a scene from the film 'Farewell, My Lovely', 1975.
Arts & Culture

QAnon as Neo-Noir

The popular conspiracy theory has intriguing parallels with classic noir by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.