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November 02, 2017 | Field Notes
A Hotel That Appears like a Mirage from the Desert
What is this luxury hotel doing in the middle of the Inner Mongolian desert?
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November 01, 2017 | Field Notes
Health, Wealth, and Wine
Field reporting can lead to surprising discoveries. But Scales wasn't expecting to find a possible link between Lyme, mushroom foraging, and a medieval wine cellar below a French hospital.
November 01, 2017 | Field Notes
Outsourcing the Dirty Work
Europe is partnering with Libyan militias to prevent African migrants from ever reaching Europe. The result is a detention-industrial complex that turns African migrants into commodities.
October 31, 2017 | Field Notes
A Personal Search for a School in Morocco Turns Up a Big Story at the State Department
My sons have thrived at the small private school in Morocco that admitted them. But the process made me wonder: How do other parents find a school overseas for children with special needs?
October 31, 2017 | Field Notes
Unexploded American Bombs Killing Children in Laos
80 million unexploded American bombs in Laos continue to kill unsuspecting children today.
October 26, 2017 | Field Notes
From a “Rafter on Foot” to the Reporter of a Migration Crisis
Access to Panama becomes tougher for all Cubans as the country is increasingly used as a channel through Latin America for immigrants.
October 18, 2017 | Field Notes
Returning to Sosua
Emily Codik was surprised by the island's transformation from a safe haven for Holocaust refugees to a sex-tourism hotspot.
October 18, 2017 | Field Notes
Peshawar Is Now Hidden Behind Walls, Segmented by Checkpoints
Some of the most iconic places in Pakistan are now hidden behind security barriers, or guarded by checkpoints that many people cannot pass through.
October 08, 2017 | Field Notes
Hide and Seek in Panama
Cuban migrants' reluctance to speak with reporters demonstrates the gravity of their situation as they make their way to the U.S.
September 27, 2017 | Field Notes
Cell Phones in Myanmar
Doug Bock Clark recounts how Myanmar's access to cellphones has changed drastically in the past six years.
September 23, 2017 | Field Notes
Anxiety Surrounds a Kurdish Independence Referendum
Anxiety surrounds a Kurdish independence referendum. The Kurdistan Regional Government shows no sign of postponing the vote. Young Kurds find themselves excited and worried.
September 23, 2017 | Field Notes
Flying into Iraqi Kurdistan
Lieutenant Kochar Saleh Haji, of the Kurdish peshmerga, returned to Dohuk from New York after accepting the UNESCO Global Hope Coalition award, given to ten “everyday heroes.”