Dispatches

An uncertain future for a Salvadoran returnee

  • March 28, 2020
  • Elizabeth Hawkins

The challenges after deportation from the United States.

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With the coronavirus outbreak, a return to a Europe of borders

  • March 25, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

Far-right dreams of closing countries off have temporarily come true as the idea of European solidarity faces new challenges.

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An oil price war in the time of coronavirus

  • March 19, 2020
  • David Kenner

A dispute between Moscow and Riyadh is dealing the US economy a blow and highlighting Saudi Arabia’s financial challenges.

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Exit interview with China fellow Matthew Chitwood

  • February 26, 2020
  • Matthew Chitwood

What he learned about rural development, electrofishing and himself.

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Can Mexico become a new destination for migrants?

  • February 26, 2020
  • Elizabeth Hawkins

Salvadorans face challenges despite the country’s rich immigration history.

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In the shadow of Auschwitz, a town seeks to tell its own story

  • February 25, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

The politics of memory are visceral and emotional in Poland, but some in Oswiecim are embracing and highlighting the complexity of their local history.

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Down and out in Riyadh

  • February 25, 2020
  • David Kenner

Millions of foreign workers flock to Saudi Arabia for work but some earn barely enough to get by.

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After city life becomes untenable,
a Salvadoran mother moves to the countryside

  • February 12, 2020
  • Elizabeth Hawkins

But rural relocation presents new challenges.

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Cooperating with the far right, German lawmakers break major taboo

  • February 5, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

Center-right politicians join the AfD to oust a state premier, a first in postwar politics.

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Auschwitz survivors’ thinning ranks
loom over liberation commemoration

  • January 30, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

With the demise of firsthand witnesses, history is increasingly a pawn in an era of rising intolerance and revisionism.

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