Newsletters

The Chinese art of tomb sweeping

  • April 16, 2019
  • Matthew Chitwood

An age-old ritual is changing with the times.

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A Chinese Christmas

  • March 11, 2019
  • Matthew Chitwood

Navigating between church and state amid a crackdown on religious expression.

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France struggles
to address rising anti-Semitism

  • March 4, 2019
  • Karina Piser

Tensions over who’s to blame are helping fracture debate and polarize the nation.

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For rural Chinese,
economic reform is worth the 40-year wait

  • January 29, 2019
  • Matthew Chitwood

With benefits finally trickling down, support for President Xi is running high.

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They made it to France.
Now these African teens are stuck in limbo

  • January 15, 2019
  • Karina Piser

A flawed asylum process is depriving young migrants of their rights.

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Housework and homecoming

  • December 20, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

Part II: Practicing hospitality in rural China.

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Migration tests French values

  • December 11, 2018
  • Karina Piser

At a trial of migrant-rights activists on the French-Italian border.

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Secularism complicates French feminism in the #MeToo era

  • October 19, 2018
  • Karina Piser

The conversation has fallen prey to tired tropes about who and what represents women’s liberation.

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Housework and homecoming

  • October 15, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

Part 1: Renovating a mud house in rural China.

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Trash management in rural China

  • September 6, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

The good, the bad and the cha bu duo.

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