Feature
List of Feature articles
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NSU-cover 10 Murders, 3 Nazis, and Germany’s Moment of Reckoning
German authorities looked the other way as a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree. Now they won’t look in the mirror.
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putin The Plot Against Europe
The West’s nightmare scenario starts with Donald Trump’s election — and ends with Russian tanks rolling into Estonia while NATO looks the other way.
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mbjordan The Trump Administration’s Islamophobic Holy Grail
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group would cripple U.S. foreign policy and launch a domestic smear campaign.
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human_rights_2 Saving the World, One Meaningless Buzzword at a Time
How corporations, activists, and politicians turned the language of human rights into meaningless babble.
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komarboryswoods The Blackwater of Jihad
A consortium of elite, well-paid fighters from across the former Soviet Union are training jihadis in Syria. Their business model could go global.
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01_vanaelst1 Is AI Sexist?
In the not-so-distant future, artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans. But as the technology develops, absorbing cultural norms from its creators and the internet, it will also be more racist, sexist, and unfriendly to women.
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01_henricojaco The Last White Africans
With 200,000 members, AfriForum is the leading civic organization advocating for the rights of Afrikaners in South Africa. Do the people responsible for apartheid’s crimes have a claim to their country’s future?
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TOPSHOT - Indian activists from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) political party listen as the Chief Minister of eastern state of West Bengal and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee speaks during a rally as part of a nationwide protest against demonetisation in Kolkata on November 28, 2016. Tens of thousands of people turned out November 28 for nationwide protests against India's controversial ban on high-value banknotes, which opposition party organisers say has caused a "financial emergency". / AFP / Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo credit should read DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images) Here’s Looking At You, 2050
How a less Christian Europe, an aging population in the West, and the empowerment of women are going to shape the future.
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01_whitaker The Radical Movement Redefining Schizophrenia
People with unquiet minds are locked up, medicated, and stigmatized. Now an international support network is telling them they might not be sick at all.
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fakharany1 The Most Dangerous Job in Journalism Is Just Being a Reporter in Egypt
Abdullah al-Fakharany just wanted to tell the truth about the Sisi government’s violent crackdown on civilians. It got him life in prison.
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Newly recruited Houthi fighters take part in a gathering in the capital Sanaa to mobilize more fighters to battlefronts to fight pro-government forces in several Yemeni cities, on January 3, 2017. / AFP / Mohammed HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2017
From Turkey to Mexico, the list of the world’s most volatile flashpoints got a lot more unpredictable this year.
