Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela 8/4/24 Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela 8/4/24

The True Price of Sportswear

Workers at an athletic apparel factory in Lesotho that make clothes for Reebok, The Greg Norman Collection, and others allege assault, humiliation, intimidation, and bullying.

Kaya Genç 8/1/24 Kaya Genç 8/1/24

Defrauding Istanbul’s Soccer Elite

How an indebted banker convinced players to invest in a “special fund.”

Lauren Kelly 7/30/24 Lauren Kelly 7/30/24

Can You Win Your Dream Home?

Property prize draws claim to offer a way out of the UK’s housing crisis. They’re not what they seem.

Luna Miguel (Tr. Ellen Jones) 7/30/24 Luna Miguel (Tr. Ellen Jones) 7/30/24

Hot

“Why did that pain turn out to be so pleasurable?”

Lisa De Bode 7/23/24 Lisa De Bode 7/23/24

Becoming Belgian

For Afghan immigrants in Belgium, securing the right to stay involves proving they have become too “Westernized” to return.

Phineas Rueckert 7/16/24 Phineas Rueckert 7/16/24

The Displacement Machine

How the Olympics exacerbated the housing crisis in Paris.

Farhad Pirbal (Tr. Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse) 7/16/24 Farhad Pirbal (Tr. Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse) 7/16/24

The Deserter

“Tomorrow I’d be sent to the front lines. Then I noticed my missing leg had sent me a letter.”

Imogen West-Knights 7/9/24 Imogen West-Knights 7/9/24

“It’s Time to Play Ball, British Style”

A hot dog, a Pimm’s cup and two national anthems: The cultural dissonance of watching America’s pastime in London.

Ayşegül Savaş 7/9/24 Ayşegül Savaş 7/9/24

The Anthropologists

“Manu and I had no spare sets of plates or matching glasses, but we had plenty of discussion in our lives.”

The Dial 7/9/24 The Dial 7/9/24

Editors’ Note

Issue 18: Sports