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When memory is resistance: a daughter remembers Columbia’s violent history

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...

Beauty and martyrdom

How aesthetic pressure sickens and isolates gay men In Diadorim, journalist Marie Declercq delivers an exploration into the tyranny of beauty within gay male culture ranging from Renaissance paintings to filtered...

Who moved my job?

As global tech giants shed jobs and AI transforms workflows, India’s IT industry faces a historic reckoning India’s once unshakeable IT industry, the country’s largest private employer and a backbone...

To Be a Father in a Time of Annihilation

Palestinian writer and editor Muhammed al-Zaqzouq writes about how the war in Gaza has reshaped the concept of fatherhood for him and his children I have lived through many wars...

Sudanese refugees and the Egyptian border’s economy of exploitation

An expansive cross-border investigation exposes the brutality faced by refugees fleeing Sudan’s war and the impunity that sustains it In a devastating and meticulously reported investigation, ARIJ’s Salma Abdel Aziz...

Kadyrov’s battle for Russia’s 500-Ruble note

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...

Women at the frontline of Taiwan’s democratic renewal

From homemakers to activists, Taiwanese women have taken to the streets to protect their democracy from Beijing’s influence. Their movement is reshaping both the nation’s politics and the meaning of...

Looking beyond El Ramillete

Mexico’s invisible workforce and the cycle of exploitation that feeds the country’s agricultural boom In this article for the Mexican digital platform PopLab.mx, Yajaira Gasca Ramírez reports on a government raid...

Denmark’s fractured family

Why the myth of unity between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands conceals a deep and uneasy divide In Eftertryk, Dánial Magnusson Haraldsen unravels the contradictions at the heart of what...

Faith in the feed

A Dutch report on how Gen Z is finding God through the algorithm As church pews across the Netherlands grow emptier, faith is quietly migrating online. A growing number of...

Between silence and belonging

The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are In “Šta smo mi, deda?”, Bajram Ilazi traces the quiet, complex search...

Entertainment for sale? Saudi Arabia’s glittering vision and its cultural contradictions

As Riyadh’s entertainment empire expands under Vision 2030, questions grow about whether Saudi Arabia is fostering real art or merely spectacle in service of the state When Saudi Arabia announced...

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