Hold your tongue

In India, the BJP wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. Ganesh Devy, on the other hand, wants to preserve as many languages as possible.

Read more

The sports-betting pundits

The real churn of betting happens not in the backrooms of sportsbook businesses but deep within the servers of companies that bettors haven’t heard of at all.

Read more

The cement giant that paid ISIS

Lafarge began operating in Syria before the civil war erupted. When ISIS took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep selling cement.

Read more