By some measures this has been a success. Britain now recycles around 45% of its household waste, up from 5% in 1996. But landfill tax also makes illegal dumps exceedingly profitable. Whoever is ...

At ground level, though, it becomes apparent that this is Bihar, India’s poorest state and home to some 130m people. It is the preponderance of bicycles that does it. They long ago receded from much ...

Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents the—often spirited— debates that lead each week to a design seen by ...