The language of Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuarón subverted sci-fi and fantasy. With Disclaimer, he has set out to conquer TV in the name of cinema.
Digital sleuthing in an AI age
Eliot Higgins and his forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a nose for truth in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
Ukraine’s personal shopper
In the war against Russia, some Ukrainians carry AK-47s. Andrey Liscovich carries a shopping list. He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex.
Cargo Shipping’s Carbon Moonshot
Container ships burn some of the dirtiest fuel there is and spew out huge amounts of greenhouse gas. But the business is poised for a dramatic shift. The ambition to clean up shipping is “like a moon shot.”
The Thirst of Bangalore
That term, water mafia, conjures an image straight out of Mad Max—gangs of small-time Immortan Joes running squadrons of belching tankers, turning a city’s water on and off at will. When I first started to hear about Bangalore’s crisis, that lurid image was hard to square with the cosmopolitan city I knew from a lifetime […]
