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The Six-Year-Old Who Explained the World — The Dial

1 month ago | thedial.world | Lily Meyer

Mafalda wasn’t born to be political. She was supposed to be an ad. Quino began drawing her, or a character much like her, in 1963 at the request of a home appliance company that was hoping to sell its products using a cartoon about a typical Argentine family. The project didn’t work out, but it got Quino, then 31, thinking about what he could do with a comic set in a middle-class home. Mafalda was a catch for Primera Plana, then a new magazine.
Big Fish - The Dial

2 months ago | thedial.world | Julia Maria Amberger |Nanni Fontana |Marzio G. Mian

In the Mediterranean, bluefin tuna has fed coastal communities for thousands of years. But today, restaurants in Sicily, Malta, Greece, Spain and Croatia mostly serve second-rate tuna, the yellowfin variety that comes from the Pacific or southern Atlantic. Almost all the bluefin tuna from the Mediterranean Sea ends up on the other side of the world, in Japan, Korea, China, and the United States, where it is has become a staple in the kitchens of luxury eateries.
Congo’s Implosion — The Dial

Mar 20, 2025 | thedial.world | Emmet Livingstone

Squeezed into a 7-mile space separating an active volcano and the shores of Lake Kivu, Goma is the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There are wide avenues with nightclubs and hotels in the center, which lies on the border with neighboring Rwanda. Further out, the city gives way to busy markets and, further still, tin shacks and clinker board houses built on jagged volcanic rock.
Blocking the Clinics — The Dial

Mar 13, 2025 | thedial.world | Anita Pouchard Serra |Natalie Alcoba

The woman I met at the abortion rights rally outside a hospital on the outskirts of Buenos Aires was apprehensive. She had lost her job in the health ministry in early 2024, as part of a wave of government layoffs instigated by the newly elected Argentina president, Javier Milei. She was reinstated a few months later but advised to keep a low profile — no more speaking to the press over reproductive rights.
Arms Race in Munich — The Dial

Mar 6, 2025 | thedial.world | Caitlin L Chandler

As the conference proceeded, I heard more European defense leaders remark that they hoped they had finally gotten the push from the Americans they needed to militarize. “Can Europe get its shit together?” a delegate asked. For Oliver Stuenkel, a political scientist currently based at Harvard’s Kennedy School, it might not be possible.
Threats, Raids and Potlucks — The Dial

Feb 20, 2025 | thedial.world | Damisola Sulaiman

Nonprofit organizations across Nigeria provide support to LGBTQ+ communities, but they are dangerous to run and forced to operate underground. Under the 2014 law, registering, operating or joining gay clubs, societies and organizations is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Organizations are typically only investigated when anti-LGBTQ+ whistleblowers inform the police directly because Nigeria’s law enforcement is under-resourced, but the risk of exposure and prosecution is ever-present.
Faulty Construction — The Dial

Feb 13, 2025 | thedial.world | Emily Wither

The Isias Grand was one of the most luxurious hotels in Adıyman. But it fell far below building safety standards. A 150-page technical report presented in court detailed several faults in the hotel’s construction. Poor-quality concrete had been mixed with sand and gravel from a local river. There was no ground survey report, and the building contravened the permissions in its original permit when it was built in 1993.
“The Dissenters,” by Youssef Rakha — The Dial

Feb 4, 2025 | thedial.world | Youssef Rakha

⁂Later, four years after the revolution when it is over and I am ready to move along, I recall that it was Mouna who drew my attention to the Jumpers. At first it was professional interest that drove me: a reporter on the trail of a scoop. But it soon felt like something much bigger, much more personal than journalism could ever be:Women of all ages and circumstances stepping over windowsills and leaping across balustrades, unaccountably killing themselves in the thick of protests and lies.
What Do We Owe the Dead? — The Dial

Jan 28, 2025 | thedial.world | Tyler McBrien

In 2020, Tishiko King returned to her native Masig Island in Australia’s Torres Strait to survey the damage wrought by climate change. In the 20 years since she had last visited, warming waters had diminished traditional fishing grounds and made life hard for the indigenous people of the Kulkalgal nation who lived there. Rising sea levels also threatened the home of future generations. But King’s homecoming forced her to confront how the climate crisis had ravaged another group: the dead.
What Do We Owe the Dead? — The Dial

Jan 28, 2025 | thedial.world | Tyler McBrien

In 2020, Tishiko King returned to her native Masig Island in Australia’s Torres Strait to survey the damage wrought by climate change. In the 20 years since she last lived there, warming waters had diminished traditional fishing grounds and made life hard for indigenous Kulkalaig. Rising sea levels also threatened the home of future generations. But King’s homecoming forced her to confront how the climate crisis had ravaged another group: the dead.