The Dial 7/27/23 The Dial 7/27/23

What It’s Like to Report on the Destruction of Your Hometown

A conversation with the Ukrainian journalist Kristina Berdynskykh, whose reporting on the aftermath of the Kakhova Dam explosion was published in our Rivers issue.

The Dial 7/25/23 The Dial 7/25/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 6: Rivers

Winthrop Rodgers 7/25/23 Winthrop Rodgers 7/25/23

The End of the Mesopotamian Basin

Can the Tigris and Euphrates be saved?

Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23 Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23

Can Anyone Stop Paris From Drowning?

The city is preparing for the return of a hundred-year flood that could displace millions.

Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23 Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23

Sins of the Salmon Kings

Every day, he releases one salmon from the pens into the sea, which gives him “an intoxicating feeling of control over life and death.”

Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23 Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23

Poems from “Something Evergreen Called Life”

“The River Stopped Its Flow” and “Who Am I?”

Kapka Kassabova 7/11/23 Kapka Kassabova 7/11/23

In the Ladies’ Pool

Time was replaced by water.

Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23 Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23

On the Shores of Lake Turkana

What happens to the animals when there's nothing to drink?

Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23 Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23

After the Flood

The water in Nigeria has now dried up, but its effects have not evaporated with it.

Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23 Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23

Finding Dry Land in Kherson

A Ukrainian journalist returns to her hometown after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23 Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23

Of Rivers and Snakes

A filmmaker’s diary from the Thames and Yangtze rivers.

Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23 Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23

The Vanishing Breadbasket

Italy’s Po Valley is drying up. Who will feed the country now?

The Dial 6/22/23 The Dial 6/22/23

Abby Seiff and Sokummono Khan on Collaborative Reporting

A conversation with the authors of “The Danger of Microfinance,” published in our Debt issue.

The Dial 6/20/23 The Dial 6/20/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 5: Debt

Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23 Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23

My Literary Breakup

Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.

Jacob Kushner 6/15/23 Jacob Kushner 6/15/23

The Infrastructure Trap

Kenya's $5 billion railway to nowhere is exacerbating debt and corruption.

Emily Schultheis 6/13/23 Emily Schultheis 6/13/23

The Black Zero

Germany reappraises its financial fetish.

Joshua Kucera 6/8/23 Joshua Kucera 6/8/23

The Writing on the Wall

Georgia struggles to adjust to an influx of Russian exiles.

Sophie Poole 6/6/23 Sophie Poole 6/6/23

Undoing the Alhambra Decree

Is Spain’s citizenship program for Sephardic Jews the best way to right past wrongs?

Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23 Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23

The Danger of Microfinance

Small loans in Cambodia drown the poor and buoy the rich.