The audio long read

Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?

The death of the department store

‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe – podcast

From the archive: Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs

The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport – podcast

Hustle and hype: the truth about the influencer economy

How to stop China and the US going to war

The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea – podcast

The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?

How we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage

The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana

Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky – podcast

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) – podcast

‘The casino beckons’: my journey inside the cryptosphere

Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

How does woke start winning again?

‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class

China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism

How the US created a world of endless war

The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone

What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now

How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution

A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution

The strange survival of Guinness World Records

Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship – podcast

The queen of crime-solving

Nazi or KGB agent? My search for my grandfather’s hidden past

‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

From the archive: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias

The empty office: what we lose when we work from home – podcast

Best of 2023: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

How south London became a talent factory for Black British footballers

Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain – podcast

From the archive: why we stopped trusting elites

From the archives: How many murders can a police informer get away with? – podcast

The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? – podcast

The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

A tale of two pandemics: the true cost of Covid in the global south

A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world

Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

From the archive: Operation Car Wash: Is this the biggest corruption scandal in history? – podcast

Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?

Best long reads of 2021: The rich vs the very, very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion

Life after death: how the pandemic has transformed our psychic landscape

The aftermath: how the Beirut explosion has left scars on an already broken Lebanon