In the Philippines, fictions color perceptions about the country’s war on drugs. […]
Justifying murder
Letter from Kuwait
No one here wanted this. […]
The gap in US foreign policy
Should Washington restore the role of international assistance? […]
When nuclear apocalypse angst was a thing
Seven decades ago, a Hollywood movie helped raise the kind of concern very few feel today. […]
The road to Carnival
In Brazil, the celebration is about forgetting problems in a country full of them. […]
The Venice of Africa
Ganvié, Benin: The water people of Nokoue Lake
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Could emigres drive Africa’s economic future?
Brain drain is siphoning tens of thousands of professionals a year but some have become the continent’s leading investors. […]
Two poems
“February Sail” and “[Dozens of snails]” […]
Journal for the Anthropology of North America: Amelia Frank-Vitale on immigration court watching
“Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court-Witnessing in Authoritarian Times,” by Amelia Frank-Vitale (Mexico, 2012-2014) et al., Journal for the Anthropology of North America, January 23, 2026 […]
Out of the darkness
The sun returns to northern Norway. […]