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  • The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai

    The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai

    October 20, 2025
    The New Yorker

    Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?

  • The First World War, in Sharp Focus

    The First World War, in Sharp Focus

    July 13, 2025
    The New Yorker

    An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.

  • How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer

    How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer

    November 4, 2024
    The New Yorker

    Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon.

  • The World’s Fastest Road Cars – and the People Who Drive Them

    The World’s Fastest Road Cars – and the People Who Drive Them

    December 18, 2023
    The New Yorker

    “Hypercars” can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation.

  • The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom

    The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom

    November 6, 2023
    The New Yorker

    An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in Dubai.

  • Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

    Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

    April 17, 2023
    The New Yorker

    Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time.

  • Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing

    Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing

    September 6, 2022
    The New Yorker

    He leads a manic, exhausting life – but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended.

  • A Ukrainian Refugee’s Fight to Save the Family She Left Behind

    A Ukrainian Refugee’s Fight to Save the Family She Left Behind

    June 21, 2022
    The New Yorker

    Inna fled the war with her two young girls—but what would happen to her husband, her mother, and her other relatives?

  • The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere

    The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere

    November 22, 2021
    The New Yorker

    The joys and absurdities of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

  • The Ship That Became A Bomb

    The Ship That Became A Bomb

    October 4, 2021
    The New Yorker

    Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

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