Gangs

“My Gang Is Jesus”

By Alex Cuadros,

Brazil’s evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade

“My Gang Is Jesus”

By Harper’s Magazine, Alex Cuadros, on January 30, 2020

Believe it or not: the simultaneous rise of gang membership and evangelical Christianity in Rio de Janeiro Read More

The Truce

By Daniel Castro,

When I met Raúl Mijango, in a courtroom in San Salvador, he was in shackles, awaiting trial. He was paunchier than in the photos I’d seen of him, bloated from…

Innocents

By Rachel Nolan,

Flor Arely Sánchez had been in bed with a fever and pains throughout her body for three days when a July thunderstorm broke over the mountainside. She got nervous when…

This spring, the Rangers, Pakistan’s paramilitary security force, launched a series of raids into Karachi’s slums for what was described by the government as a crime-prevention campaign. Members of the…

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Monte Reel,

Twenty-year-old Davonte Flennoy was killed on a Monday night in June 2012. As the setting for a murder, South Rockwell Street, in Chicago’s Marquette Park, was familiar enough to border…