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Surrogacy During War — The Dial

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Ukraine is one of the leading countries in international surrogacy — even during wartime.

on Wed, 9PM

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On Nietzsche Mountain — The Dial

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Notes from the annual Nietzsche colloquium in Switzerland.

on Dec 11

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Can a Comma Solve a Crime? — The Dial

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How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.

on Nov 22

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The Promise of Duolingo — The Dial

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The language-learning app won’t make you fluent, but maybe that’s not the point.

on Nov 22

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AI Won’t Save Endangered Languages — The Dial

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Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.

on Nov 19

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Hello to All That — The Dial

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What returning to New York after 12 years in Istanbul taught me about America.

on Nov 11

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Meet You at Kmart — The Dial

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On Guam, the struggling retail giant is the place to be.

on Oct 24

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Cambodia’s Billion Dollar Scam — The Dial

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Thousands of people have been trafficked into the country to work in cyber scamming compounds built with Chinese money. Now they’re stuck there.

on Oct 22

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“They Are Liars” — The Dial

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Israel’s attacks in Beirut, and American complicity in them, has confirmed for many Lebanese how little they matter to the United States.

on Oct 18

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McDonald's Macarons — The Dial

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How U.S. fast food took over the world — and then went local

on Oct 17

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The World’s Hot Springs — The Dial

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A photographer’s encounter with natural springs, thermal pools and public baths — and the people who care for them.

on Sep 20

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England’s Squirrel Obsession — The Dial

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Campaigns to save the red squirrel, and cull non-native grays, have little to do with ecology.

on Sep 14

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Don’t Take Advice From a Habsburg — The Dial

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Eduard Habsburg, with the help of his royal ancestors, wants to fix your marriage, your soul, and your politics.

on Sep 10

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What Elon Musk Gets Wrong about South Africa — The Dial

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The tech mogul's statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

on Sep 6

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Defrauding Istanbul’s Soccer Elite — The Dial

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How an indebted banker convinced players to invest in a “special fund.”

on Aug 26

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Becoming Belgian: The New Blueprint for Winning Asylum Cases — The Dial

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For Afghan immigrants in Belgium, securing the right to stay involves proving they have become too “Westernized” to return.

on Jul 24

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What the Olympics Mean for Paris’s Housing Infrastructure — The Dial

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Thousands of Parisians have been evicted and displaced ahead of the summer games.

on Jul 17

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The Cultural Dissonance of Watching Baseball in London — The Dial

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A hot dog, a Pimm’s cup and two national anthems.

on Jul 15

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Vienna Dances On — The Dial

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As Europe seems to be falling apart, Austria's decades-old balls endure.

on Jun 25

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Adopted by Russia — The Dial

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Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans taken from the Donbas region are now stranded in the Kremlin’s orphanage system.

on Jun 25

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"Apostrophe's Dream" by Yiyun Li — The Dial

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A story from “A Cage Went in Search of a Bird”

on Jun 25

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Why the Disney Formula Doesn't Work in China — The Dial

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A day at Shanghai Disneyland.

on Jun 5

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Erdoğan’s Relentless Campaign Against Writers — The Dial

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The legal case against Elif Shafak is part of the president's wider crackdown on Turkey’s academics and press freedom.

on May 15

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Jan Marsalek: The Most Wanted Man in Europe — The Dial

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How the former Chief Operating Officer of Wirecard stole two billion euros from the company and became a Russian spy.

on May 14

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A Shadow Over Svalbard — The Dial

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Once a haven for international cooperation, trust on the Norwegian archipelago is disappearing — and so are the rights of its residents.

on May 13

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Inside Germany’s Taxpayer Funded Neo-Nazi Networks — The Dial

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The trouble with the country's far-right informant apparatus.

on May 8

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César Aira’s Magic — The Dial

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How the eccentric Argentine author came to occupy the center of Latin American literature.

on May 2

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El Salvador’s "Regime of Deception" — The Dial

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It isn’t true what they say, that “those who have done nothing, have nothing to fear.”

on Mar 31

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The Three Pillars of the Enforced Disappearance — The Dial

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Over a hundred thousand citizens have vanished at the hands of the Syrian regime.

on Mar 6

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Ireland's Memory Machines — The Dial

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Data centers have proliferated across the country, at great cost.

on Feb 13

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The Gujarati Queen of Hearts — The Dial

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One Indian couple's decade-long legal battle against "Love Jihad."

on Jan 23

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Reckoning with Denmark's Cruel Birth Control Campaign — The Dial

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For nearly a decade, the Danish government sought to control Greenland’s population by implanting IUD devices in Inuit girls, often without their consent.

on Jan 10, 2024

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The Chinese Migrants of Chiang Mai — The Dial

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Voices from a new diaspora.

on Dec 16, 2023

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A Last Wildness — The Dial

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Riding alongside the reindeer herders of Europe's northernmost county.

on Dec 8, 2023

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The Norway Model — The Dial

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How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.

on Dec 5, 2023

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What Elon Musk Gets Wrong about South Africa — The Dial

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The tech mogul's statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

on Dec 1, 2023

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The Kurdish Ulysses — The Dial

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Kawa Nemir's translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.

on Nov 30, 2023

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How to Deepfake an Election — The Dial

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In Slovakia, an AI-generated video swung a recent national vote.

on Nov 28, 2023

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"The Frog That Couldn't Jump" by Kim Ju-Song — The Dial

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Three excerpts from the 2018 memoir.

on Nov 25, 2023

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The AI Accomplice — The Dial

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Artificial companions are meant to relieve loneliness, but they can also encourage humans' darkest tendencies.

on Nov 11, 2023

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How to be a Good Soldier's Wife — The Dial

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Russian women embrace the rules of wartime femininity.

on Nov 9, 2023

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Reporting from Exile — The Dial

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Journalists forced out of their home countries reflect on how displacement has affected their work.

on Nov 3, 2023

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Yugoslavia's Digital Twin — The Dial

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What happens when a country's internet domain outlives the nation?

on Oct 24, 2023

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Ukraine’s Fight for F-16 Jets — The Dial

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A tactical, collective effort convinced Western allies to supply Ukraine with new fighter jets.

on Oct 19, 2023

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Ozempic's Economic Empire — The Dial

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Novo Nordisk's success has created extraordinary opportunities for Denmark, but it might also be putting the country's economy at risk.

on Oct 17, 2023

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The Blue Dollar Economy — The Dial

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In Argentina, an illegal peso-to-dollar trade is fueling a financial fantasy of economic stability.

on Oct 9, 2023