[1] Their writers are based all over the world, including Rome, London, Shanghai, Barcelona, Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time blog wrote about the book: "And The City Swallowed Them looks at the world that brought two different kinds of newcomers together—foreigners, including young models fighting for emerging opportunities in high fashion, and China’s own migrants, including those traveling from poor villages who were willing to go to desperate measures to scrape together their own living.”[citation needed] Hvistendahl is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.

Following in the tradition of George Orwell’s “Marrakech” and, more recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations in The Atlantic, "Homelands" is an essay exploring the global migration crisis and calling for open borders.

The short book focuses mostly on a firsthand account of visiting the popular tourist destination and extremely dangerous Cerro Rico mine in Potosí, Bolivia, where hundreds of people die in collapses and explosions every year.

The book touches on other similar phenomenons of "dark eco-tourism", including taking cruises to watch glaciers melt, flights over the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and bus tours through New Orlean's Lower Ninth Ward, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

With a detailed account of the events leading up to the wreck and how the disaster unfolded, it explores the new frontier of energy everywhere from the cockpits of rescue helicopters in the Arctic to Washington D.C. to oil company boardrooms.

In a detailed, narrative style it retraces the precise timeline of the circumstances surrounding the crime as well as the history of the village where it took place, exploring the complicated dynamics at play when someone is victimized by a community that has also been subjected to decades of violence, damaging stereotypes and oppression from society at large.

The book revolves around the wizard of Mount Merapi in Java, Indonesia, a mystic figure who refuses to obey an evacuation order for an impending volcanic eruption.

The story follows exiled Syrian businessman Mezyan Al Barazi and a network of compatriots over several years as they navigate the hurdles of getting money and supplies to the rebels, hoping to quickly overthrow the government.

Through dozens of interviews and other primary sources the book reveals wide, covert, sometimes foreign government-backed networks of Syrians abroad who are funding the war.

The story centers around the island of Trinidad and Tobago, in the midst of a drug war,[9] where the assassination of star prosecutor Dana Seetahal shocked the country.

Her death raised conspiracy theories about Colombian drug cartels, Venezuelan arms smugglers and a local religious community with a secret political agenda.

The story also documents the FBI's involvement, when the murder became more than a local matter, and the hunt for Dana Seetahal's killers became a case of misdirection and double meanings.

[citation needed] An article in the Columbia Journalism Review offered this criticism of the Deca model: "I found myself wondering if this really is a better arrangement for freelancers who feel exploited by traditional magazines.