Money & Powers

From silence, into the light

A shocking Colombian investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic church

Running on empty

As war in the Middle East disrupts energy flows, millions of Indian households are left scrambling for gas

Special Period II

How Cuba is faring in its economic war with the US, and what it bodes for the future of the island’s regime

Tehran: The price of now

The human cost of spiralling inflation and currency collapse

Kingston: Who owns carnival in Jamaica?

Women may be taking centre stage, but behind the scenes lies deep-set gender inequality

The ‘uberisation’ of psychology in Brazil

Digital platforms promising affordable mental health care are pushing psychologists into precarious gig-style work

Protein, pork and power

How food culture is being weaponised by the far right, from raw-egg masculinity to nationalist school meal policies in Sweden

The desert city holding back a war

In Mauritania’s far southeast, a refugee camp of nearly 300,000 people has become both sanctuary and buffer zone between Mali’s collapse and Europe’s borders

Inside a Georgian call centre scam

An exposé of the $35 million scam operation that left a global trail of broken lives

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