Africa

Sleeper trains, cargo ships, and vehicle relocation — the surprising alternatives to flying that already exist.

A retired consultant in Wales represents Kiribati from his house. Can you engineer that on purpose? The playbook, the vetoes, and the plaque.

Daniel moved to Israel for ideology, not opportunity. So are ideological migrants the exception — or just badly counted?

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.

Cholera is fast, cheap to treat, and entirely preventable — yet 3.4 billion people lack safe sanitation. Here's why the numbers don't add up.

From a $225 Rio-to-Lima marathon to a $24,000 guided expedition, the world's longest bus rides are a study in slow-travel misery.

2.9 million work-related deaths a year — and 2.58 million of them are disease, not injuries. What workers still don't know about the air they breathe.

What happens when a precise surveyed border cuts through a way of life built on movement? The Bedouin, Druze, and Maasai cases.

Five days in 1977, eight experts, one list that now shapes what billions of people can get from their pharmacies.