Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Public Loves Myanmar’s New War on Muslims
One year after a historic election put a civilian government in charge, the country's army is using brutal methods to regain its popularity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Middle East Watched America’s Election Through a Mirror
As Republicans and Democrats hashed out their differences, politicians from Iran to Israel made it all about themselves.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For Kenyans Who Survived Post-Election Violence, U.S. Race Feels Like Déjà Vu
Donald Trump says he may not accept the results of Tuesday’s vote. Kenyans know what that looks like – and it’s not pretty.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ukraine Has Opened Pandora’s Database of Corruption
But declaring billions of dollars in wines, watches, and tickets to outer space isn’t going to win the public’s love — or the West’s trust.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey’s ‘Kurdish Obama’ Is Now in Jail
Selahattin Demirtas, who once hoped to challenge Erdogan’s grip on power, finds his political party under attack and himself behind bars.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fleeing Burundi Won’t Protect You From Its Government
A Burundian militia is crossing borders to terrorize refugees and infiltrate the aid agencies that are supposed to protect them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Brief Life and Slow Death of Ukrainian Journalism
An independent news channel wanted to revolutionize Ukrainian media. But not all Ukrainians were in the mood for the truth.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World Only Helps When Southern Africans Starve
Donors are now racing to limit the effects of a devastating famine that was entirely preventable.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For Iraqi Christians, a Bittersweet Homecoming
They’re taking their homes and churches back from the Islamic State. But it may be too late to start over.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ukraine’s Women Are Kicking Ass and Taking Names
From small towns to the halls of parliament, women are at the forefront of change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After 24 Years, I Am Leaving the Disaster Venezuela Has Become
And my heart grieves for my friends and neighbors, who are stuck there — for worse is yet to come.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iraq’s Elite Soldiers Have Their Sights Set on Mosul
But if they hope to defeat the Islamic State, they’re going to have to learn to work with some new allies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Are You Silent Because There Are Muslims in Our Country?’
As bombs rain down on Aleppo, one family struggles to survive – and wonders whether help will ever come.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Women Survive. They Do Not Live.’
ISIS brutalizes women in the name of Islam — and it still has thousands of female slaves in its grasp.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Marine Le Pen’s Youth Brigade
In Britain and the United States, it’s older working-class voters who are alienated and looking to blow up the system. In France, it’s young people.
