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Emergency Mode in Geneva
President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID have thrown the “capital of international development” into disarray.
Reporting on Trans Rights in China
A conversation with Lavender Au, who wrote about China’s strict policy requiring parental consent for trans people seeking gender-affirming surgery, no matter their age, for our Bodies issue.
‘Anya, Wake Up! They Started a War!’
Recording Ukrainian dreams in wartime.
The Dissenters
“I plan to ask Mouna about it, but in the sound and the fury of her dying, I forget.”
Response to a Friend
“The world happens, as illusive as dreams.”
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government from the Inside?
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
Crashing Trump’s ‘Multicultural’ Inauguration Ball
Diplomats, lobbyists and grifters celebrate with sequins, jollof rice and prayer.
Under Supervision
Transgender people in China — no matter their age — require parental consent to transition.
People from Oetimu
“Torn between jealousy and heartbreak, the men began to drink.”
The Remains of Uruguay’s Dictatorship
The military’s pact of silence is slowing down investigations to find the missing.
Writing to Political Prisoners in Russia
Dmitrij’s main crime was photographing bridges in Vladivostok. I decided to write to him.
Poems from Poland
“I want to think of her as living.”
Surrogacy During War
Ukraine is one of the leading countries in international surrogacy — even during wartime.
Andromeda
“I understood that he was testing me, and that he was doing so because for some reason he had decided to believe in me.”
“Forever Is Over”
The first days of post-Assad Syria.