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The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?

The Colombian drug lord’s exotic menagerie fell apart after his death, and now wild hippos are breeding out of control. By Joshua Hammer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (20…

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  Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned a…

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  The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?

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  10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)

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  ‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breas…

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  10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)

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  Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read

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  Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth

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  No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship

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  From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged wit…

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  On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of t…

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  A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life …

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  From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a danger…

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  Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

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  As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed …