From the series Bureaucratics by Jan Banning, a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents. You can read more about this project at the bottom of the article. Rodolfo Villca Flores, chief supervisor of market and sanitary services of the municipality of Betanzos, Cornelio Saavedra province, Bolivia. Photo: Jan Banning / Fontana Gallery, Bolivia, Potosi, 2005."Chicken?"Sony Lebrun stands at the small, smoking grill – green shirt, silver neck chain, tattooed arms. We’re in Caradeux,...…From the series Bureaucratics by Jan Banning, a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents. You can read more about this project at the bottom of the article. Rodolfo Villca Flores, chief supervisor of market and sanitary services of the municipality of Betanzos, Cornelio Saavedra province, Bolivia. Photo: Jan Banning / Fontana Gallery, Bolivia, Potosi, 2005."Chicken?"Sony Lebrun stands at the small, smoking grill – green shirt, silver neck chain, tattooed arms. We’re in Caradeux,...WW…

Illustrations by Afonso Gonsalves for The CorrespondentThis sluggish pulse is not what you think it is. Not the heartbeat of someone who is sleeping. Not the depressed cardiac pattern of a patient in intensive care. And it isn’t aeither. It’s Donald Trump’s approval rating. The stability of Trump’s rating since he became president of the United States is remarkable in itself. But it reveals something even more extraordinary when one zooms out for a wider picture. It’s the symbol of a completely overlooked story about American democracy. Democracy in the US has often beenat...…Illustrations by Afonso Gonsalves for The CorrespondentThis sluggish pulse is not what you think it is. Not the heartbeat of someone who is sleeping. Not the depressed cardiac pattern of a patient in intensive care. And it isn’t aeither. It’s Donald Trump’s approval rating. The stability of Trump’s rating since he became president of the United States is remarkable in itself. But it reveals something even more extraordinary when one zooms out for a wider picture. It’s the symbol of a completely overlooked story about American democracy. Democracy in the US has often beenat...WW…

Illustrations: Jenna Arts for The CorrespondentMel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Google was a hip, young tech company that made money – actual money! – off the internet. Karmazin was there to find out how. Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Google’s founder and its CEO respectively, were already seated in the conference room when co-founder Sergey Brin came in, out of breath. He was wearing shorts. And roller skates.The Google guys told Karmazin that the search engine’s earnings...…Illustrations: Jenna Arts for The CorrespondentMel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Google was a hip, young tech company that made money – actual money! – off the internet. Karmazin was there to find out how. Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Google’s founder and its CEO respectively, were already seated in the conference room when co-founder Sergey Brin came in, out of breath. He was wearing shorts. And roller skates.The Google guys told Karmazin that the search engine’s earnings...WW…

Railway crossing at the Croatian-Hungarian Border, Illocka, October 2019. All photos in this article are by photographer Rafal Milach (Hollandse Hoogte / Magnum), who followed the 523km long south Hungarian border fence, that was erected in 2015 by Viktor Orban’s administration. The fence was erected in an attempt to stop thousands of refugees and asylum seekers crossing Hungary to get into western Europe. (Hollandse Hoogte / Magnum)There is a new normal now in global politics. What was once the– athat exist outside of and are more radical than mainstream conservativism – has moved...…Railway crossing at the Croatian-Hungarian Border, Illocka, October 2019. All photos in this article are by photographer Rafal Milach (Hollandse Hoogte / Magnum), who followed the 523km long south Hungarian border fence, that was erected in 2015 by Viktor Orban’s administration. The fence was erected in an attempt to stop thousands of refugees and asylum seekers crossing Hungary to get into western Europe. (Hollandse Hoogte / Magnum)There is a new normal now in global politics. What was once the– athat exist outside of and are more radical than mainstream conservativism – has moved...WW…

The images in this article are part of the project The Poverty Line by artist duo Chow and Lin. The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine daily choices we would face living on the breadline. Each country’s figure is based on the official poverty definition to derive a per-person, per-day rate. This image, for example, represents the poverty line in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2018. Official definition of poverty per person, per day: €12.49; food: €4.02 ($4.68). You can read more about these images at the end of the article.On 13 November 1997, a new casino opened its...…The images in this article are part of the project The Poverty Line by artist duo Chow and Lin. The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine daily choices we would face living on the breadline. Each country’s figure is based on the official poverty definition to derive a per-person, per-day rate. This image, for example, represents the poverty line in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2018. Official definition of poverty per person, per day: €12.49; food: €4.02 ($4.68). You can read more about these images at the end of the article.On 13 November 1997, a new casino opened its...WW…

Illustrations by Munir de Vries for The Correspondent.In times of crisis, radical ideas are suddenly pulled out of the hat. The same is true ofWhen I wrote one of my first articles on the idea seven years ago, it was almost completely forgotten. But economists and sociologists had already shown heaps of evidence that "free money" could be more effective than traditional forms of social security and development aid.In recent weeks, calls for a basic income have been louder than ever. In the US,US presidential candidate Andrew Yang ran on a platform of universal basic income and qualified for...…Illustrations by Munir de Vries for The Correspondent.In times of crisis, radical ideas are suddenly pulled out of the hat. The same is true ofWhen I wrote one of my first articles on the idea seven years ago, it was almost completely forgotten. But economists and sociologists had already shown heaps of evidence that "free money" could be more effective than traditional forms of social security and development aid.In recent weeks, calls for a basic income have been louder than ever. In the US,US presidential candidate Andrew Yang ran on a platform of universal basic income and qualified for...WW…

Photographer Daan Paans visited the textile laboratory of the Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede where, at Emy's request, two pairs of jeans, an old and a new pair of Levi's 501, were subjected to a number of quality tests. All photos in the article are by Daan Paans“Quality doesn’t seem to exist anymore. What I often find instead are clothes made from loose, thin fabric. Lousy. Flimsy.”“Quality has drastically declined at well-known brands, too. A pair of Levi’s at what I consider an extremely high price point of 100 euros will only last two or three years now.”“Two years...…Photographer Daan Paans visited the textile laboratory of the Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede where, at Emy's request, two pairs of jeans, an old and a new pair of Levi's 501, were subjected to a number of quality tests. All photos in the article are by Daan Paans“Quality doesn’t seem to exist anymore. What I often find instead are clothes made from loose, thin fabric. Lousy. Flimsy.”“Quality has drastically declined at well-known brands, too. A pair of Levi’s at what I consider an extremely high price point of 100 euros will only last two or three years now.”“Two years...WW…

Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the end of the article.In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears on a purpley-blue lit stage. “Seven hundred blockchaingers,” the man shouts at his audience. He points at each programmer in the room. “Machine-to-machine learning … ” And then, at the top of his voice: “Energy transition! Health! Public safety and security! Future of pensions!”We are...…Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the end of the article.In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears on a purpley-blue lit stage. “Seven hundred blockchaingers,” the man shouts at his audience. He points at each programmer in the room. “Machine-to-machine learning … ” And then, at the top of his voice: “Energy transition! Health! Public safety and security! Future of pensions!”We are...WW…

Illustration by Lulu Lin (for The Correspondent)Even this far into his term, it is still a bit of a shock to be reminded that the single most potent force for misinforming the US public is the current president of the United States. For three years this has been a massive – and unsolved – problem for the country and its political leadership. But now it is life and death. On everything that involves the coronavirus, Donald Trump’s public statementsOn top of that, the president is using the powers he won by election to destroy public confidence in the results of the next election. That’s...…Illustration by Lulu Lin (for The Correspondent)Even this far into his term, it is still a bit of a shock to be reminded that the single most potent force for misinforming the US public is the current president of the United States. For three years this has been a massive – and unsolved – problem for the country and its political leadership. But now it is life and death. On everything that involves the coronavirus, Donald Trump’s public statementsOn top of that, the president is using the powers he won by election to destroy public confidence in the results of the next election. That’s...WW…

Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the end of the article.In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears on a purpley-blue lit stage. “Seven hundred blockchaingers,” the man shouts at his audience. He points at each programmer in the room. “Machine-to-machine learning … ” And then, at the top of his voice: “Energy transition! Health! Public safety and security! Future of pensions!”We are...…Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the end of the article.In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears on a purpley-blue lit stage. “Seven hundred blockchaingers,” the man shouts at his audience. He points at each programmer in the room. “Machine-to-machine learning … ” And then, at the top of his voice: “Energy transition! Health! Public safety and security! Future of pensions!”We are...WW…