War

When sanctions throttle the banking system and bombs flatten the high street, money finds other ways to move. The informal financial networks that thrive in war zones are not a curiosity of the underground economy—they are its arteries.

After the bombs stop falling, the real money starts to flow. But the business of rebuilding war zones is a masterclass in how billions of dollars of aid can enrich a well-connected few while leaving the rubble largely untouched.

When a country is shattered by war, its bonds do not simply default—they are snapped up, litigated over, and traded for a profit by a new breed of investor who thrives on sovereign distress

A global surge in military spending has turned the defence industry into one of the world’s most lucrative—and politically untouchable—asset classes

Who truly profits from war, who foots the bill, and how the ledger reshapes global capitalism

A forensic investigation of Jebel Sahaba, the 13,000-year-old cemetery that changed our understanding of human violence. Four articles deconstruct what the bones actually say.

If this was not the oldest war, what was it? And why the distinction matters.

What the healed injuries reveal about survival, revenge, and daily life in the age of climate chaos.

Inside the forensic investigation that identified the oldest projectiles ever lodged in human bone.

How a 13,000-year-old cemetery fooled archaeologists for decades, and what the bones finally told us.