PARIS — Our fair-minded but ever subjective staff of journalists, translators and editors have chosen what we believe to be the year's most engaging and provocative stories.
Why The Chinese Are So Good, But Rarely Great
CHINA / Caixin, Jan .5
That Slippery Euphemism We Call "Cultural Differences"
FRANCE / Worldcrunch, Jan. 15
Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Capitalism
U.S. / Le Monde, Jan. 26
Why Greek Debt Is Also An Environmental Time Bomb
GREECE / Worldcrunch, Feb. 15
No Goat Year Babies! China Wrestles With Its Zodiac Passions
CHINA / Economic Observer, March 22
How TV Series Can Help Us Understand Geopolitics
FRANCE / Les Echos, March 26
Don't Ask If I'm A Feminist, Ask Why Women Earn 22% Less
GERMANY / Die Welt, April 20
Mediterranean Graveyard, The Nameless Dead Of Malta
MALTA / La Stampa, April 21
Lost In Translation, A Strange State Of Grace
JAPAN / Le Temps, May 15
Surrogate Mother Industry Carries On After Nepal Quake
NEPAL / L'Obs, June 9
Russia Can't Afford To Choose Between East And West
RUSSIA / Kommersant, June 23
El Chapo Escape, When Income Inequality Breeds Corruption
MEXICO / El Espectador, July 17
Modern Islam And The Disease Within
TURKEY / Die Welt, July 28
Rony Abovitz: Unraveling Magic Leap's Enigmatic Founder
ISRAEL / Calcalist, July 30
Kos, When Tourists And Migrants Land On The Same Greek Island
GREECE / L'Obs, Aug. 12
In Syria, Life In Harmony With War
SYRIA / Radikal, Aug. 12
From Armenian Genocide To Kurdish Rebels, Turkey Is A Nation In Denial
TURKEY / Radikal, Sept. 10
Germany's Refugee Crisis And The Remaking Of Angela Merkel
GERMANY / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oct. 13
Waste In Brazil, Where Environmental Failure Meets Dire Poverty
BRAZIL / Folha de S. Paulo, Oct. 16
The Nocebo Effect, Placebo's Evil Twin
SWITZERLAND / Le Temps, Nov. 8
Parking In New York Has A Grammar Of Its Own
U.S. / Yonder, Nov. 10
Refugees And City Planning, An Unlikely Urbanist Opportunity
ARGENTINA / Clarin, Nov. 26
Jihadism As Nihilism, An X-Ray Of Homegrown Terror In France
FRANCE / Le Monde, Dec. 3