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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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Summer, scandal and day-to-day pluralism in Paris

  • August 3, 2018
  • Karina Piser

A stroll through the city’s 11th arrondissement.

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Thriving cults are harming young people in Nigeria

  • July 23, 2018
  • Onyinye Edeh

Four years after the Chibok kidnapping, little has been done to to protect Nigerians from a militant group that is upending life for millions.

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In China, country people in a land of drastic change

  • July 13, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

Rural Chinese are adapting to transformation unlike anything seen before. These are some of their stories.

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France’s experience with terrorism has upended conceptions about free speech

  • July 5, 2018
  • Karina Piser

As secularism and Charlie Hebdo become sacred, any criticism of the Republic is considered a threat.

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Realpolitik in rural China

  • June 14, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

What Chinese villagers think about a looming trade war.

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Violence and displacement under Boko Haram

  • May 7, 2018
  • Onyinye Edeh

Four years after the Chibok kidnapping, little has been done to to protect Nigerians from a militant group that is upending life for millions.

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