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How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer

How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer

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

Posted on November 4, 2024November 6, 2024 by edrichards
Posted in The New Yorker
The World’s Fastest Road Cars – and the People Who Drive Them

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

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

Posted on December 18, 2023December 18, 2023 by edrichards
Posted in The New Yorker
The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom

The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom

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.

Posted on November 6, 2023November 8, 2023 by edrichards
Posted in The New Yorker
Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

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.

Posted on April 17, 2023April 22, 2023 by edrichards
Posted in The New Yorker
Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing

Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing

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.

Posted on September 26, 2022October 28, 2022 by edrichards
Posted in The New Yorker
A Ukrainian Refugee’s Fight to Save the Family She Left Behind

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

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

Posted on June 21, 2022 by edrichards
Posted in The New Yorker

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