Ethiopia

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

Six churches share Jerusalem's holiest sites — and none can move a chair without the other five agreeing. Here's how that happened.

A friend's "you're stewing in your own dirt" comment ruined baths for Daniel for years. Here's what the research actually says.

One in three new GitHub developers now comes from a country outside 2020's top ten. What that shift means for open source.

There's no master list of survival foods — just a performance standard. And "acceptable" is written into it.

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

Meningitis is an anatomical description, not a prognosis. Same word, wildly different odds — from a bad week to five days from flu symptoms to a fu...

Tunisian olive oil with French labels, Iranian rugs in Jerusalem shops — how goods actually move around sanctions and enemy-state bans.

Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them?

Famine classification fights obscure simpler questions: how many children are acutely malnourished, and what does the data actually show?

What An Idiot Abroad gets right about comedy, travel, and authenticity — and the rare shows that pull off the same trick.