On the streets of Hong Kong in 1938
Hong Kong in 1938 was smaller in scale, more human, much poorer and more unjust
Police shootings database
Whatever the cause the sheer number of dead should impress us: 813 so far this year with weeks to go
Tracking the incompetent Trump cabinet
Bush’s team bungled Hurricane Katrina but they were professionals compared to Trump’s gang
Homs, Syria after five years of war
Drone video footage shows there’s no life left in Syria’s third largest city
The long, strange journey of checked luggage
Finally, the answer to how many chances are there along the way to steal my valuables
Syrian-American composer who plays for peace
A symphony for Syria reminds me of Sarajevo and the hope that cosmopolitan tolerance will survive
Activists in Raqqa exposing the Islamic State
We owe a great debt to the people documenting the devastation around them
Portraits of African elites in India 500 years ago
Who knew Africans ruled parts of India, including Bengal, centuries ago?
Take a walk in Berlin a century ago
A film of early-20th century life in the German capital so vivid it will feel like you’ve visited
Flying things as you have never seen them before
Tracing the patterns of birds and bugs results in something very cool and almost abstract
Every flight in 24 hours
This video reveals flights, yes, but also population densities, wealth, and history
A historic find on the Bowery
A friend may have found the 18th C Bull’s Head Tavern under a construction site on the Bowery
Prayer of Fear by Mosireen
The media collective Mosireen perfectly captures the current moment in Egypt
The funniest person I know
My sister Kali is a riot and you’ll soon see why on the Disney show “Liv and Maddie”
Video drones over Taksim Square in Istanbul
When the police control the streets, video drones can see what they are up to
How great is India’s magazine The Caravan?
Long form reportage, ruthlessly edited, about India and elsewhere. Now you know
The Atlantic tries to show how genius happens
To the systems minded, no nitty is too gritty when it explains how things work
HOW and NOSM mural on the Deitch wall
The Basque street artists brave the New York blackout to paint their wicked new mural