Iran’s Bizarre Military Bazaar
Aircraft and armaments on Kish Island, an earthly paradise designed to win over the international community
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Lapland of Luxury
The Governor General in Finland
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Kenyan sex worker Hawa Chelangat: still alive, still negative
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Wall-to-wall Politics
For mercenary painters like Nene, graffiti is both a way to make a living and a rite of democracy
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Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police
On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment
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Water Torture
soweto—“Shoot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or! I shot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or!” Roughly 500 men, women, and children march down Rissik Street, through the business district of …
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Author Gilad Grossman (centre) with his mother and brothers Amit (left) and Ari (right), in Gesher Haziv kibbutz. /Courtesy of Gilad Grossman herzliya, israel—Here I sit, in the heat and …
Read MoreMidnight in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin in his home, Novo-Ogaryovo. / Photograph by Dmitry Lekay/Kommersant moscow—When he’s in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin lives in a forested compound complete with stables and …
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Rough Justice
Illegal diamonds are the prize. But death in the Amazon rainforest is the price, as Indians, Brazilian miners, and a mysterious third party fight over the richest deposit in South America.
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The Numbers Game
Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation—and nearly doubles that of Canada
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