ISSUE 20: LESSONS
✺
ISSUE 20: LESSONS ✺
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.
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.
Does radical activism help or hurt the climate movement?
Scientists are recording the sounds of the Amazon in a bid to better protect it.
Eduard Habsburg, with the help of his royal ancestors, wants to fix your marriage, your soul, and your politics.
MORE ISSUE 20 PIECES COMING
“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.”
A photographer’s encounter with natural springs, thermal pools and public baths — and the people who care for them.
France knew the pesticide chlordecone could cause cancer and destroy the environment. It allowed banana plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe to use it anyway.
Thousands of people have been trafficked into the country to work in cyber scamming compounds built with Chinese money. Now they’re stuck there.
OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS
In conflicts around the world, food and hunger are used as tools of war. What's the role of international law in addressing human-inflicted starvation?
INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE
A conversation with Paloma De Dinechin, whose reporting on the scientists recording the sounds of the Amazon rainforest was published in our Lessons issue.
A conversation with Lucía Cholakian Herrera who was in Venezuela to cover the July 28 presidential election that has plunged the country into a democratic crisis.
READ PAST ISSUES
✺
READ PAST ISSUES ✺
JOURNALISM
Four young women share stories of survival under military rule in Myanmar.
As governments across the world crack down on migration, can alternatives to asylum make a difference?
Life in the aftermath of the 2020 explosion.
ESSAYS
Data centers have proliferated across Ireland, at great cost.
Global maritime shipping is riddled with obstacles that slow down logistics, some of which are intentionally implemented to increase profit.
The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.
POETRY
“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”
“Bird the Knife” and “Measure to protect cultural heritage”
BULLETIN FROM BABEL
How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.
María Kodama’s fierce loyalty transformed the legacy of Argentina’s most-cherished author.
Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.