Dispatch № 1s

Dictatorship deluxe

A report on the rise and fall of Uncle Assad’s real estate empire The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has sparked multiple investigations into how and where the

Clean Girl only for whites?

Brazil’s Revista AzMina takes on the popular lifestyle aesthetic. From pristine centre-partings to no-makeup looks, the clean girl aesthetic epitomises a sense of impeccable, natural elegance. Think of 1990’s American icon Carolyn

A requiem for Salzburg’s Mozart balls?

The city contends with the end of local industrial production of the chocolate delight. Two hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Austria’s most famous composer and his burial

Islands of power

An Ecuadorian perspective on Pacific geopolitics in the Trump era The Peruvian airbase of ‘El Pato’ sits just inland from the Pacific Ocean, a few kilometres north of the remote

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