Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Poisoned Waters of Punjab
Mothers in the Indian state of Punjab say the water has rendered them infertile -- claims that researchers support but that the government laughs off.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Khamenei’s Counterrevolution Is Underway
Iranians thought the nuclear deal would spark a new relationship with the West. But the supreme leader had other plans.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 If You’re a Refugee Dreaming of America, Don’t Come to Lebanon
This tiny country already hosts more than 1 million Syrians — and the U.S. resettlement process for them is completely broken.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 German Angst vs. the Islamic State
Privacy laws are as central to German identity as beer and bratwurst. But as terror attacks mount, Germans are rethinking their relationship to Big Brother.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ebola Is Now Killing People Who Aren’t Even Infected
The epidemic has waned, but the virus still threatens the lives of women and children in West Africa.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is This the End of Chávez’s Venezuela?
Voters in Venezuela are threatening to give Nicolás Maduro's ruling party the boot in Sunday's election — if the Chavistas let them.
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ISR-81542246 Palestine’s Abortion Problem
Abortions remain illegal in Palestine. So when women in the West Bank decide to undergo the procedure, guess where they end up.*
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Liberia’s Latest Ebola Case Slipped Through the Cracks
Just weeks after the country was declared Ebola-free, the newest case of the deadly virus revealed worrying shortfalls in its ability to prevent another outbreak.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Save the Schengen Zone
The treaty that provides for free movement of people through Europe is under threat from all sides. Here’s how to rescue it -- and all that it stands for.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Kremlin’s Holy Warrior
The spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church has blessed Vladimir Putin’s Syrian intervention as a sacred crusade. Jihadis in Syria happen to agree.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Town Dayton Turned Into a Garbage Dump
Twenty years after Bosnia's peace deal, Mostar -- once an emblem of hope -- has become a symbol of stagnation: Croats on one side, Bosniaks on the other, and rats everywhere.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A (Very) Cold War on the Russia-Norway Border
The number of Syrians taking an unlikely route into Europe through the Arctic Circle has expanded from a handful to hundreds. And Oslo thinks Moscow is responsible.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Syria’s Speed Freaks, Jihad Junkies, and Captagon Cartels
The chaos of the war against Bashar al-Assad is fueling the rise of a dangerous, new super-amphetamine across the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Battle for Uganda’s ‘Museveni Babies’
An entire generation of Ugandans has grown up under one president. Now they’re the principle battleground in an election that could end the aging strongman’s rule.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An ‘Islamist Pit Stop’ in the Heart of the EU
How inequality and government dysfunction combined to turn the small Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek into a hotbed for terrorist activity.
