Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance
The Emirati royal is increasingly influential on the world stage. Some see him as a visionary. Others compare him to a Bond villain. Who is he?
Democratising the Digital
Digital technologies are a market product and play politics by different means. It’s up to us to harness them for democracy
John Reed: The Journalist and the Revolution
A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, exploring John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook The World' on the banks of the Nile
Welcome to the Land That No Country Wants
In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of 'unclaimed' African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that borders are delicate and volatile things
Marikana: After the Massacre
A series of special reports exploring the legacy of the Marikana mineworker massacre, in South Africa and beyond.
The ‘Left to Die’ Boat Scandal: How Dozens of Migrants Were Left By NATO Military Units to Perish at Sea
An exclusive investigation for the Guardian that provoked international outrage, and forced a policy change across Europe
An Escape From the Arab Uprisings: One Migrant's Voyage to Europe
Mohamed Munadi's Tunisian village was barely affected by the uprising, but when Libya erupted he was one of many who fled to new shores
Exodus: A Sea and Its People Evaporate
In Karakalpakstan, an obscure corner of central Asia where the waters of the Aral Sea have turned to desert, Jack Shenker finds a nation fleeing ecological disaster and authoritarian rule
Khaza’a: Anatomy of a Massacre
For over 24 hours earlier this month, a village in southern Gaza was devastated by an Israeli army attack. Jack Shenker revisits a day of destruction.