As the child of Cuban exiles, the story of my roots was explained in the past tense, and illustrated in fading black and white family …
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Every day, the unforgiving sun glares down on this city of dreamers. It weighs, the brightness of the day. Heavy with opportunities that many feel …
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The grieving never stops. That much I can tell you. With certainty. It hits you when you see their name… on an old email, a …
Read Full StoryAt Majeed’s: Art, Truth, & War in Baghdad
The afternoon was overcast. The way most December afternoons are in Baghdad. A soft mud-yellow breeze blowing against a beige sky. The brown date palms …
Read Full StoryBeyond Politics and Poverty: The Storms That Lash Brazil
Waters of March It hasn’t been raining more than ten minutes when streets begin to flood. Thick and murky, it falls in corrugated sheets. Water. …
Read Full StoryThe Woman With No Name: Leading a Double Life in Manila’s Drug Underworld
For her, a seemingly simple question was very difficult to answer. She paused the second I asked: “what should I call you?” She looked at …
Read Full StoryThe Man Who Followed His Heart: Bridging Chinese-Philippine Relations One Blow at a Time
The Other Side It was a rather unusual trajectory. Rhio Zablan went from working in the Philippine President’s press office to — “the other side”. …
Read Full StoryWhat A Feminist Looks Like: Standing Up to the Chinese Government
SAME OLD, SAME OLD Li Tingting didn’t look worse for wear. She was full of energy, and had a big smile on her face. One …
Read Full StoryCatch-22: Cambodia and Its Haunted Cycles
“There is a saying here,” a Phnom Penh journalist told me jovially as we drove past the Tonle Sap river at sunset: “the Chinese chase …
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