Dispatch

Paradise

A quarter of Costa Rican landmass has been given over to national parks.

  • Matthew Fishbane

South Africa’s 99 Percent

The passage of the Group Areas Act in 1950 brought forceful expulsion and sequestration to all areas of the country.

  • Jessica Pothering

Under the Cross in China

Christian weddings are on the rise in China, even among non-believers.

  • Xiao-bo Yuan

New Model Army

The Liberian army embarks on its first combat mission since the end of the country’s brutal civil war.

  • Clair MacDougall

Juárez Rebounds . . . Sort of

From 2008 until 2011, Juárez was among the world’s most violent cities.

  • Sarah Hill

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir

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Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Return to Haiti

A year and a half after the earthquake.

  • Colin Dayan

Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall Street

I had always thought that surely cops wouldn’t hurt people without a really good reason. But they do.

  • Jeanne Mansfield

Straight Shooter

Coming home after Navy Seal duty.

  • Matt Gallagher

A Little Help

Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 

  • David William Turner

How to Write About Africa

At the offices of Kwani—a literary agitator without peer. 

  • Anna Clark

A Beautiful Place

I was fifteen when we left Palestine in the summer of 2000, just a few months before the al Aqsa Intifada.

  • Ahmed Moor

Qaddafi’s Dream

The man who imagines himself king of kings.

  • Robert P. Baird

In Tahrir

The Egyptian revolution, viewed from the center of Cairo.

  • Ahmed Moor

Known Unknowns

Deliberations in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

  • Basil Katz

Heckuva Job

After the Charles Keating scandal, I thought Darrel Dochow would never supervise banks again. I was wrong.

  • Richard Newsom

Legerdemath

In my time working at Citigroup, I learned how to connive customers.

  • Omer Rosen

Iraq’s Lost Generation

The war’s human toll.

  • Nir Rosen

Sturdy Green Thread

Yearning for democracy in Iran

  • Sara Irani

Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Natural disaster is paving the way for the manmade variety.

  • Syed Saleem Shahzad

The War for Drugs

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

  • Sarah Hill

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

For the last seven weekends in a row, violent settlers from neighboring Bat Ayin have attacked the Palestinian farmers here.

  • David Shulman
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