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Spring 2017
Above and below
For the poorest residents of Manila, living in the city means living under the city.
The ‘party buses’ are out in Belarus
In 2010, when Minsk exploded into protest, state violence soon followed. This year “Europe’s Last Dictatorship” allowed marches against a widely hated tax, but respite was only temporary.
They can’t round up everybody
In the U.S., immigrants who arrived as children haven’t been targeted for deportation. But that could change.
What border walls are really about
Among country pairs that have a wall between them, the state building the wall is on average four times as wealthy per capita as the state being walled out.
These vigilantes wear pink
India’s Pink Gang has grown from a small group of women wielding sticks to a potent political force.
The language custodian
The Nigerian linguist Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún isn’t ready to consign Yoruba to the history books. But he’s fighting the tide.
The scapegoating of Rosa Maria Ortega
In 2004 and again in 2008, an Austrian-born Canadian citizen living in the swing state of Florida cast absentee ballots in the U.S. presidential...
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