How a group of women finds joy and nostalgia in the crowded capital “We are all bathroom singers here,” says Sehr, one of the women at a gathering called Sing...
The Chinese government has disappeared hundreds of Uyghur intellectuals since 2016, severing people from their land and history. Experts say this has created a “museumification” of Uyghur culture. Rahile Dawut is...
An Argentinian documentary follows a teenager’s transition to answer this question. The documentary Tristán y los días por venir (Tristán and the days to come) was filmed over seven years, documenting Tristán’s adolescence...
A crackdown on press freedom is intensifying in the Horn of Africa nation Salsawit Baynesagn is the latest journalist to be detained in Ethiopia this month, according to an Amharic...
What happens when helping disabled people in China becomes more about charity than equality? Every year, China marks National Disability Assistance Day on the third Sunday of May with slogans...
The parents of a Gen-Z icon fear for his safety after a government crackdown on his new cockroach-inspired political party A new political party in India, the Cockroach Janata Party...
An exposé of the $35 million scam operation that left a global trail of broken lives In this EU Journalism award-winning investigation, journalists exposed a sophisticated fraudulent call centre operation nestled in the...
A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin In Mediapart, journalist Mathias Thépot reports on the explosive arrival of the Chinese ultra-fast-fashion giant Shein inside Paris’s...
An Italian report into the murky underworld of Libyan oil The histories of Italy and Libya have long been intertwined: from the time when Libya was a province of the Roman Empire, to Italian...
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...
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