From the 1960s, baby brokers persuaded often Indigenous Mayan women to give up newborns while kidnappers ‘disappeared’ babies. Now, international adoption is being called out as a way of covering up war crimes. By Rachel Nolan Continue reading...

As an anaesthetist prepares a brain-dead patient for organ removal, he reflects on the need for compassion in a donor’s last hours• This essay was originally published as Last hours of an organ donor on aeon.coThe patient was dead before I even saw her. She had been in a car accident. Now she was scheduled for organ donation. To estimate operative risk,...

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2021: Early in Trump’s presidency, emboldened neo-Nazi and fascist groups came out into the open but were met with widespread revulsion. So the tactics of the far right changed, becoming more insidious...

Every year, hundreds of Kenyans head off to study at elite universities in the US and UK. On graduating, many find themselves in a strange position: unable to fit in abroad, but no longer feeling like they belong back homeIt was 30 December and the girls were all in Kilifi. Bottles on the table, music piping through a speaker, the beach and the Indian...

Going public after I was attacked was hard, but it helped me overcome the shame that so many victims feel. By Rena Effendi Continue reading...

It is taking fast fashion to ever faster and ever cheaper extremes, and making billions from it. Why is the whole world shopping at Shein? By Nicole Lipman Continue reading...