From the archive: Is the IMF fit for purpose?

‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

From the archive: A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world

‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID

‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose

From the archive: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos

‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages

From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders

Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet

From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

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