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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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What returning to New York after 12 years in Istanbul taught me about America.
on Nov 11
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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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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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As Europe seems to be falling apart, Austria's decades-old balls endure.
on Jun 25
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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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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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Riding alongside the reindeer herders of Europe's northernmost county.
on Dec 8, 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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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