Money & Power

Trouble in the Albanian Alps

How a scheme to boost economic development in Albania’s mountainous north could end up enriching a few, harming the environment and angering its neighbours. There are few true mountain wildernesses...

Ebola isn’t the only crisis unfolding in the DRC

How a political power struggle could distract from eradication efforts An already deadly and worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is compounded by the ruling government’s...

End of the line for Kyrgyzstan’s women drivers

A journalist set out to profile the women trolleybus drivers of Bishkek. What she found was a means of transport – and way of life – on the brink of...

Tehran: The price of now; spiraling infration and currency collapse

In Iran, we have a common joke: "I fell and felt something break. Thank God it was my leg and not my phone!" Yes, it's irrational. Your body should be...

A railway built on sand

The crumbling foundations of the Greek railway system Track ballast, the special-purpose gravel placed beneath railroad tracks, is like the foundations of a building. If it’s unsound, then the entire...