1843 magazine
Migration
Djibouti, the port-state squeezed by the Houthis’ Red Sea campaign
While warships protect cargo, migrants trying to reach the Middle East are on their own
Immigration
How a trucker became a deadly people smuggler
Transporting undocumented migrants across America can seem like easy money – until everything goes wrong
Economics
How poor Kenyans became economists’ guinea pigs
Randomised controlled trials have many problems. They may still be the best tool for solving poverty
Afghanistan
Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls
When the Taliban cracked down on girls’ education, one woman knew what she had to do
Ukraine
The hopes and dreams of Ukraine’s teenage refugees
Photographer Polly Braden has followed the lives of schoolgirls who fled after Russia’s invasion
Russia
Life and death in Putin’s gulag
Navalny’s death has exposed the similarities between Russia’s current penal system and Stalin’s
Nationalism
Why right-wing Italians love hobbits, pirates and talking seagulls
Their obsession with fantasy literature has a long and curious history
Letter from Kalundborg
The town that Ozempic and Wegovy built
Novo Nordisk’s drug is helping millions to lose weight. It is also changing Denmark
Property
TikTok gurus made property investing look easy. I lost thousands
Samuel Leeds has retooled an old sales pitch for the age of influencers. No amount of controversy seems to dent it
Letter from Tbilisi
The prisoner and the oligarch: the struggle for Georgia’s future
Can Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president, win back the hearts of his countrymen?