Lindsey Kennedy & Nathan Paul Southern 10/15/24 Lindsey Kennedy & Nathan Paul Southern 10/15/24

Cambodia’s Billion Dollar Scam

Thousands of people have been trafficked into the country to work in cyber scamming compounds built with Chinese money. Now they’re stuck there.

Chris Knapp, Giada Santana, & Juli Simond 9/26/24 Chris Knapp, Giada Santana, & Juli Simond 9/26/24

The Toxic Legacy of the French Banana

France knew the pesticide chlordecone could cause cancer and destroy the environment. It allowed banana plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe to use it anyway.

Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24 Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24

Gabÿ, Tree, Goose

Three poems.

Greta Rybus 9/19/24 Greta Rybus 9/19/24

The World’s Hot Springs

A photographer’s encounter with natural springs, thermal pools and public baths — and the people who care for them.

Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24 Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

Emily Schultheis 9/12/24 Emily Schultheis 9/12/24

The Grassroots Organization Taking on Germany’s Growing Far Right

After Serpil Temiz Unvar’s son was murdered in a violent attack targeting immigrants, she founded an organization that could take on Germany’s increasingly popular far right movement.