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May 15, 2018 | Field Notes

Building Relationships in China

Argentina Maria-Vanderhorst

Argentina Maria-Vanderhorst shares a few observations on traveling to China to report on why Chinese women are having fewer children.

March 22, 2018 | The New York Review of Books

Zimbabwe: Enter the Crocodile

Joshua Hammer

How did Robert Mugabe's rule end? With a mysterious poisoning, a clandestine flight across the border, a standoff at the airport, and a furious shootout in a Harare suburb. Here's the whole story.

February 04, 2018 | STAT

Can Tech Sustain a Super-Aged Japan?

Shiho Fukada

Japan has the largest percentage of older people in the world, with 27.3 percent of their citizens 65 and older. It has turned to technologies from VR to robotics to solve challenges of super-aging.

February 02, 2018 | Pulitzer Center

In Jail, But They've Committed No Crime

Tracey Eaton

In Bolivia, hundreds of children live behind bars with their imprisoned parents. "Jail is not the best place to grow up," a government official told reporters, but at least families stay together.

January 31, 2018 | Pulitzer Center

His Sister Missing, a Man Waits in Anguish

Tracey Eaton

Zulma Corhuari, 16, stepped out for a moment to get an aspirin for her headache. Her family never saw her again. Her brother Victor is desperate and suspects the worst. "There's no justice," he said.

January 30, 2018 | Pulitzer Center

Deadly Habits Passed Along to Children

Tracey Eaton

In Bolivia, entire families are surrendering to cheap drugs—lethal and mind-altering concoctions of glue, gasoline, and paint thinner. The problem is growing and there's no solution in sight.

January 27, 2018 | Pulitzer Center

Saving Souls and Resisting Temptation

Tracey Eaton

Ivan Ramirez runs an orphanage near Cochabamba. He started with one child—"a delinquent in miniature," Ramirez called him. More children arrived and the orphanage grew. "It was God's plan," he said.