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The Nation: Karina Piser on France’s broken social ladder

  • March 23, 2018
  • Karina Piser

Macron bills his government "radically centrist," but its social policies are sliding to the right.

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France attack an early test for Macron

  • March 23, 2018
  • Karina Piser

He must reassure a public on edge while ensuring the response doesn’t deepen high tensions around Islam.

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Converting to Islam in the secular republic

  • March 23, 2018
  • Karina Piser

A determined girl tests the French law banning religious symbols in schools.

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通往邦东的路

  • March 13, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

新公路如何改变着中国的乡村生活

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The curious case of the missing migrants

  • March 12, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

‘Teaconomics’ transforms a Chinese village.

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In China’s countryside, Xi’s continued leadership warmly welcomed

  • March 2, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

In Yunnan province, villagers react to the plan to abolish presidential term limits.

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Humans of Nigeria:
Women’s lives in Africa’s largest economy

  • February 28, 2018
  • Onyinye Edeh

Trials, triumphs and patriarchal resistance.

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How a TV contest became the latest front in the battle of French identity politics

  • February 26, 2018
  • Karina Piser

A Muslim woman's appearance on 'The Voice' prompts an alignment of Left and Right.

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The road to Bangdong

  • January 31, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

How new transportation routes are changing lives in rural China.

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How ‘Je Suis Charlie’ became a rallying cry for the French Republican model

  • January 26, 2018
  • Karina Piser

Three years on, the debate over the attack on the satirical magazine is making it more difficult to battle extremism.

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