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February 22, 2016
MagazineMikaela Lefrak
Photographing the Survivors of Boko Haram
Ruth McDowall's subjects face away from the camera to protect them from repeat attacks and community stigma.
December 21, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
New protections will prevent Minnesotan dentists from trophy hunting most African lions.
July 30, 2015
Steven Cohen
Angry About Cecil the Lion’s Death? Take It Out on the Republican Congress.
The GOP is waging a war on the Endangered Species Act, and on the agency charged with enforcing it
July 1, 2015
Tommy Trenchard
Sierra Leone’s Rich and Powerful Are Breaking the Ebola Burial Rules
And it's putting everyone at risk
November 18, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Stop Trying to Save the World
Big ideas are destroying international development
October 10, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
A GOP Senator Objects to Emergency Ebola Funding Because It 'Focuses on Africa'
October 6, 2014
Danny Vinik
Is Ebola Here to Stay? “That’s Our Biggest Fear."
This new test will be key to separating Ebola from other sicknesses
August 14, 2014
Laurie Garrett
Heartless but Effective: I've Seen 'Cordon Sanitaire' Work Against Ebola
August 13, 2014
Armand Sprecher
I'm an Ebola Doctor Working in Liberia. Giving Every Patient That Rare Serum Doesn't Make Sense.
August 12, 2014
Emily St. John Mandel
You'll Probably Never Catch Ebola—So Why Is the Disease So Terrifying?
July 9, 2014
Jonathan Zimmerman
Americans Think Africa Is One Big Wild Animal Reserve
Delta and 'The Lion King' are part of our long history of stereotyping the continent
May 1, 2014
Graeme Wood
Hell Is an Understatement
A report from the bloody, crumbling Central African Republic
March 7, 2014
Dayo Olopade
Comic Book Convinces Kenyans to Dye Their Chickens Pink
It does good things for education, too.
January 6, 2014
Michael Hobbes
How Did Zimbabwe Become So Poor—And Yet So Expensive?
The shockingly high prices of one of Africa's most impoverished countries
September 24, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
Africa's Obsession with Shopping Malls
Al Shabab attacked the perfect symbol of Kenya's rise
June 28, 2013
Tristan McConnell
The Next Darfur?
In Sudan's Rebel-Held Nuba Mountains, War Rages On
August 26, 2011
Joshua Kurlantzick
What Qaddafi’s Fall Means for His Evil Minions in South America, Asia, and Africa
April 13, 2011
Barak Barfi
Can Africa Really Help Libya Find Peace?
March 3, 2011
Lawrence F. Kaplan
Engagement Ring
February 15, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Republicans Abandon Bush's Greatest Triumph

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