Feature
List of Feature articles
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002_Mail_sidebar1 Mali’s Migrant Crackdown
Europe has been helping fight the country’s jihadis for years. Now it’s turning its sights on human smugglers.
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000_project Europe Slams Its Gates: Imperiling Africa – And Its Own Soul
An unprecedented wave of African migration is warping Europe’s politics and threatening its stability. Can the Continent respond without destroying its values and wreaking havoc in Africa? FP’s special investigation examines Europe’s desperate campaign to barricade itself — and the policies’ unintended consequences.
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SeptOct_Mehta_topimage This Land Is Their Land
Immigration is inevitable. When will the West learn that it promises salvation — not destruction?
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Nimroz On the Edge of Afghanistan
A decimated economy, a resurgent Taliban, and growing tensions with Iran are driving disenchanted Afghans to seek opportunities abroad. And for many it’s their only option.
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Kasim Muhammed Tahir and his pet bird Abboud The Things They Carried: The Iraqis Who Fled Mosul
Escaping war and the Islamic State, families took with them what little they could carry — remembrances of loved ones and the past.
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SeptOct_Beals_topimage Rescuing Migrants From a Couch in Galicia
How a school administrator in Spain is helping save refugees with little more than fervor and a phone.
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Kaveh Adel was born in Ahvaz and raised in Tehran. He is a dentist, cartoonist, author, coach and speaker who emigrated to the USA in 1986 at the height of Iran-Iraq war fleeing political persecution in Iran. Currently he lives and practices in Illinois where he is writing an autobiographical graphic novel. The Iranians Who Can’t (or Won’t) Go Home Again
After years of living in America, those who fled political turmoil in Iran reflect on a complicated relationship with their homeland.
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South Korea's K-1 tank fires during a joint military drill between US and South Korean Marines at a fire training field in the southeastern port of Pohang on July 6, 2016. South Korea and the United States are conducting a joint marine infiltration and attack exercise, testing the interoperability of the two countries' forces for a potential operation against North Korea. / AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) A Sneak Peek at America’s War Plans for North Korea
The Pentagon has been running war games for years, and the results aren’t pretty.
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new_1patinkin_cover1 No Country for Civilians
The sudden exodus from war-torn South Sudan is the largest Africa has seen since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This is what a nation without civilians looks like.
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06_Kazansky_v2 The Midnight Train to Moscow
Riding the rails to Russia with the migrant workers of Central Asia.
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State_topgloomy 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.
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SB-2_SW_V1 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.
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hajek_jeffries2 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.
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Hajek_Jeffries1 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.
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DeOliveira1 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.
