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Graveyard shift

On the perilous stretch of water where the Columbia river meets the Pacific, the US Coast Guard is refining the art of preparation. Can our reporter ride the wave?

  • Issue #163
  • 4 min read
Coast Guard member in protective gear on boat with rescue vessel approaching in rough seas
Urbanism

Start the dance

Dance hall La Paloma thrived for more than a century until a barrage of noise complaints closed its doors. Now, soundproofed and reimagined, the party is back.

  • Issue #162
  • 8 min read
Start the dance
Business

Mix and match

Bookshop chain Tsutaya is adding some design nous to the country’s co-working offering – and an alternative to its rigid office culture.

  • Issue #162
  • 8 min read
Interior view of Share Lounge Marunouchi showing café area with large windows overlooking Tokyo Station's red-brick façade
Diplomacy

Bubbling under

Speculation about the blasts that wrecked the Nord Stream gas pipelines has been rife. Is the truth about to surface?

  • Issue #162
  • 12 min read
Aerial surveillance footage showing gas bubbles on Baltic Sea surface from Nord Stream pipeline explosion
Urbanism

Urbanism

A new design school in South Africa and trainers designed for the London Underground.

  • Issue #162
  • 4 min read
Exterior side view of The Hasso Plattner D-School Afrika
Affairs

Affairs

Hannah Lucinda Smith visits Turkish cities recently devastated by powerful earthquakes – a catastrophe made even worse by corrupt, shoddy construction.

  • Issue #162
  • 12 min read
Rescue workers in high-visibility vests search through earthquake rubble with an orange excavator amid destroyed buildings
Politics

April

The stories you should be paying attention to – and the ones you might have missed.

  • Issue #162
  • 4 min read
Politician in blue suit speaking at podium with microphones while diverse group of people stand behind him
Defence

Up in arms

Andrew Mueller surveys the military hardware that will reshape modern warfare in the years to come.

  • Issue #161
  • 6 min read
The French navy frigate Lorraine, a Fremm-class warship, rendered as a gray military vessel with distinctive angular design

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