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The Midnight Train to Moscow

Riding the rails to Russia with the migrant workers of Central Asia.

How the Trump Administration Broke the State Department

Morale has hit rock bottom at Foggy Bottom, as American foreign service officers languish and Rex Tillerson builds a mini-empire.

The 1980s American Soap Opera That Explains How Russia Feels About Everything

A look at the peculiar obsession with “Santa Barbara” in the post-Soviet experience.

German Philosophy Has Finally Gone Viral. Will That Be Its Undoing?

A new generation of rockstar philosophers are taking the discipline to the masses. But their TED Talks, TV shows, and best-sellers might be ruining it forever.

Verdirbt Richard David Precht die Deutsche Philosophie?

Eine neue Generation deutscher Philosophen bringt die Disziplin Kants, Hegels und Adornos näher ans Volk als je zuvor -- und vielleicht eher zu Fall.

One Woman’s Fight to Claim Her ‘Blackness’ in Brazil

The experience of a young lawyer raises difficult questions about race, belonging, and the bureaucracy of affirmative action in a country lauded for its egalitarian history.

The Harsh Reality of Being African in India

A wave of brutal violence against visiting college students is forcing the country to examine its racism problem.

The Things They Carried: The Afghan Field Medic

On the frontlines of war, there are only the briefest of moments to save lives—or lose them.

The Shaman Masters of Hohhot Have Returned

Os vários tons de Maíra Mutti Araújo

Num país famoso por um ideal de mistura racial, a luta de uma candidata para usar cotas raciais levanta questões complexas sobre cor e identidade no Brasil.