The lynching of a 19-year-old Bengali labourer in Odisha exemplifies a growing climate of communal violence against Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in India On Christmas Eve in Sambalpur, Odisha, a...
As thousands mourn a slain rebel in Bastar, the report asks whether the state can kill a movement without addressing the conditions that gave it life Narrated by Rachana for Khabar...
For a moment the global quinoa boom enriched Bolivian farmers before collapsing into overproduction, environmental damage, and economic hardship For thousands of years, wind has carried salt from the Bolivian...
How a custody case in rural Abruzzo became a vehicle for nostalgia, anti-modernism, and a political war on the judiciary In this sharp and unsettling piece from Il Post, the...
How a once-playful slang term became Italy’s newest racialised public enemy In this sharp, deeply reported piece for Internazionale, journalist Leonardo Bianchi traces the transformation of the term maranza, a once-benign descriptor...
A deep investigation into the clan networks that bind Kurdistan’s political life In an investigation for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, journalist Lujain Al-Sultani traces how tribal loyalties continue to shape every layer...
Natalie Munevar’s story of her father’s enforced disappearance exposes the enduring wounds of Colombia’s political violence. Through memory, she demands justice and confronts the silence imposed by fear and impunity...
As Russia redesigns its currency, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov wages a symbolic war for visibility When the independent Russian outlet Radio Svoboda published journalist Artem Radygin’s report on the Russian Central Bank’s search...
An exploration of how the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground In “Africa in the shadow of the global far right”, German-Kenyan scholar...
The collapse of the long-term lease system has left many Koreans exposed to unexpected risks. In an interview with Slow News, Choi Kyung-ho discusses how social housing might change that....
In Russia, a top figure skating coach has been accused of physical and sexual violence against an 11-year-old athlete. The scandal has sparked a conversation about abuse in children’s sports...
A fascinating investigation into how a Maltese criminal recently convicted of murder tried to make his way in the pan-Mediterranean betting world Some way into this deeply researched article from...
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