Dispatches

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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The origins of Portugal’s drug crisis 

  • December 27, 2024
  • Rowland Robinson

Revolution, decolonization and a dictator’s long shadow.

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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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A worryingly warm Arctic welcome 

  • September 17, 2024
  • Brett Simpson

In Norway, a historic summer heat wave signifies a trend with global consequences.

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A slice of Moscow in the Balkans  

  • September 6, 2024
  • Aron Ouzilevski

Some 300,000 Russian emigres are building long-term homes in Serbia.

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Regulating conscious dreaming 

  • August 30, 2024
  • Rowland Robinson

Conversations with the first Dutch psychedelic entrepreneurs.

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Belarusians in exile haunted by repression at home  

  • August 7, 2024
  • Aron Ouzilevski

But life abroad is enabling the diaspora to reforge a national identity.

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