The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a war.

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Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

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The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.