NAURU

This piece on Nauru from "This American Life" is absolutely brilliant. Imagine a story that connects money laundering by Russian oligarchs, guano, environmental degradation, international refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Australian navy boarding a Norwegian cruise ship, a Danish psychologist, backroom CIA deals involving an embassy in China and North Korean defections, global warming, and a suit against the U.S. in an Australian court. You couldn't make this story up (or at least I couldn't).

(Picture from Ferieguiden.no)