Dispatches

Guns, scrubs and sunshine   

  • October 23, 2025
  • Rowland Robinson

How armed factions are limiting access to health care and social services in Brazil.

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Is this the model democracy?

  • October 14, 2025
  • Brett Simpson

Dueling realities of climate change and politics in Norway’s election year

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On frames of beauty

  • September 5, 2025
  • Edric Huang

Notes on recent queer art exhibitions in Tokyo.

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Destroying the evidence

  • August 12, 2025
  • Brett Simpson

US government budget cuts targeted the global record of melting polar ice. The consequences for climate science could be calamitous.

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On building solidarity

  • June 17, 2025
  • Edric Huang

Transnational activism at an Asian regional LGBTQ+ conference.

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How protests protect South Korea’s mercurial democracy

  • January 9, 2025
  • Prachi Vidwans

Citizens unite on the streets after President Yoon’s martial law decree.

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Into the darkness

  • December 19, 2024
  • Brett Simpson

Lessons from Norway's winter mørketid.

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A Taiwanese dramedy confronts national trauma

  • October 17, 2024
  • Edric Huang

“Father Mother” explores gender, identity and reconciliation.

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The corroded Silicon Valley of Europe

  • October 10, 2024
  • Aron Ouzilevski

Escaping war, wealthy Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians flock to Cyprus’s gray economy

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In South Korea, trash balloons prompt a debate over free speech 

  • September 25, 2024
  • Prachi Vidwans

Why some have turned against defector activists.

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