Every year, the Endless Thread team convenes around a campfire to freak each other out with the scariest stories they can find on the web. This Halloweekend, Ben Brock Johnson,... The waters of Brazil ...

Weak governance, poverty, and climate stress have allowed jihadist groups to establish a foothold across the Sahel, with the Liptako-Gourma borderlands of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger now accounting ...