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

Health

Tinnitus nearly drove me mad

I have had to learn to live in a world without silence

Election 2024

Tired of wokeness? Move to Florida

How the Democrats lost the Sunshine State

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?