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 poaching, monopolies, and institutional failure are emptying Europe’s largest wetland If you walk along one of the small ports in the villages of the Danube Delta, you might still...
How AI is quietly reshaping Spanish healthcare Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future prospect in Spanish healthcare. It is already examining patients, prioritising cases, and shaping diagnoses, often without...
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 the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart In this essay for Domani, Stefano Dealessandri explores a Venice that is no longer just a city, but a playable...
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...
A massive data leak has revealed the widespread use of spyware app Cellular 007, originally marketed as a parental control tool Reporting from Rio de Janeiro, Allan de Arbreu reveals...
How a rich civic culture was built in Yemen in the 1970s and after, and how that legacy has been dismantled since the Houthi takeover, as archives, institutions, and freedoms...
How personal darkness becomes a theory of class, race and aesthetic rebellion In this reflective essay for Mexican publication Revista de la Universidad, Dahlia de la Cerda traces her journey from...
How a global green boom is rearranging lives, land and power In this sweeping investigation for Mongabay, journalist Irfan Maulana traces the human cost and political stakes of Indonesia’s nickel rush,...
Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates Translator was recently in northeastern Italy in the town of Gorizia – fifty...
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