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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 2d

In 2024, social media posts about people going to "fake offices" to "pretend to work" went viral in China. Local news described these offices as ways to keep up appearances and avoid the stigma of being jobless. Lavender Au visited one to see if that was true, and what people did there all day.

What’s Going On at Beijing’s “Fake Offices”? — The Dial

Lavender Au reports on the rise of “pretend to work” offices.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 8d

"Washington’s extraterritorial detention practices have sprouted Guantánamo-like tendrils elsewhere ... Such is the problem with so-called spaces of exception, these dark laboratories of extralegality. Like weeds, they proliferate, somehow managing to crop up anew."

Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial

Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 8d

That chapter set the legal precedent for Guantánamo Bay's subsequent use in the War on Terror. Now, less than a year into the second Trump administration, this carceral legacy has been revived amidst the federal government’s sweeping immigration crackdown, Miriam Pensack reports.

Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial

Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 8d

Over the 1990s, Washington transformed Guantánamo Bay into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on this little-known history.

Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial

Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets

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Esther King @esthermavis.bsky.social · 9d

I translated Sabrina's great reporting from German for @thedialmag.bsky.social — read her dispatch here👇

The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 13d

Oil companies and developers in Peru are ignoring historic legislation which protects the country’s waves, reports Sabrina Weiss. With oil spillage and new infrastructure threatening wildlife and the local economy, activists are organizing to maintain clean waters.
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Protecting Peru’s Waves — The Dial

A new law was supposed to shield beaches from development and oil spills. It’s not being enforced.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 8d

Before it was used as an extralegal prison during the "War on Terror," Guantánamo Bay held tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on the long, sinister history of the naval base: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial

Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 13d

Oil companies and developers in Peru are ignoring historic legislation which protects the country’s waves, reports Sabrina Weiss. With oil spillage and new infrastructure threatening wildlife and the local economy, activists are organizing to maintain clean waters.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Protecting Peru’s Waves — The Dial

A new law was supposed to shield beaches from development and oil spills. It’s not being enforced.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 14d

2/2 Naya Lyberth recalls when she and her classmates in Maniitsoq were forced to receive an IUD: “When I had the 'spiral', it was like stab wounds inside me and it was so painful.” Read the story, and view the photos: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 14d

1/ Yesterday, the prime minister of Denmark made an apology for the forced sterilization of indigenous Greenlandic women and girls in the 1960s. Last year, Juliette Pavy photographed a handful of the victims and told their stories: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Reckoning with Denmark's Cruel Birth Control Campaign — The Dial

For nearly a decade, the Danish government sought to control Greenland’s population by implanting IUD devices in Inuit girls, often without their consent.

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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · 14d

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Consider the Snail — The Dial

“In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 15d

A new law in Peru was supposed to shield beaches from development and oil spills. It’s not being enforced. Sabrina Weiss reports on the law's gaps, and the local initiative to protect the country's waters and shorelines: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Protecting Peru’s Waves — The Dial

A new law was supposed to shield beaches from development and oil spills. It’s not being enforced.

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · 18d

“Am I Now in Exile?” Fleeing Bukele, by El Faro journalists for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Fleeing Bukele — The Dial

Journalists in El Salvador are under heightened scrutiny. Many have been forced to leave.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 21d

“I heard of a young man, traveling the world,
who had taken with him a Welsh dictionary.
Our language, and its alphabet, are unique.
but of this that man couldn’t bear to speak.

Read “Three Words Towards the Death of our Language,” by Karen Owen.

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Poems From Wales — The Dial

By Llŷr Gwyn, Siân Northey and Karen Owen.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 21d

“A team of academics
with Powerpoint graphics
is expounding on the decline,
death and disappearance
of the world’s minority languages.”

Read “The Sea Organ at Zadar,” a poem by Siân Northey, translated from Welsh by Robert Minhinnick

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Poems From Wales — The Dial

By Llŷr Gwyn, Siân Northey and Karen Owen.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 21d

This week, we bring you three poems translated from Welsh on the mixed feelings of speaking a disappearing language.

“OK, I understand / what you're thinking. / And yes, it can be dispiriting."

Read “To Translate,” by Llŷr Gwyn, translated by Robert Minhinnick

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Poems From Wales — The Dial

By Llŷr Gwyn, Siân Northey and Karen Owen.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 23d

3/ Their essay reveals Bukele’s tactics of repression, brutality and censorship. “In Bukele’s narrative, there are no activists, journalists, cooperatives, or environmentalists. There are opponents.” Read the story: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Fleeing Bukele — The Dial

Journalists in El Salvador are under heightened scrutiny. Many have been forced to leave.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 23d

2/ Óscar and Carlos Martínez left El Salvador before the story broke, as a temporary measure. Now, facing arrest upon return, they are forced to confront the sobering reality of never going home. “For many of us, it was still part of a naïve question: Am I now in exile?”

The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 23d

1/ In a firsthand account of repression and exile, two Salvadoran journalists report on their exodus from El Salvador, unable to return home after breaking a story on President Nayib Bukele’s pact with the country's gangs. “[Bukele] was shown as he really is: the gang members’ political partner.”

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Institute for Nonprofit News @inn.org · 28d

This year’s Nonprofit Newcomer of the Year is Mara Wilson, who has transformed @thedialmag.bsky.social as managing editor.

The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 29d

Putin is erasing Ukrainian culture. In Mariupol, museum exhibitions have been closed, historical artifacts stolen and destroyed, school curriculums overhauled and more. Yegor Mostovshikov reports: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Putin’s Culture War in Ukraine — The Dial

Under Russian occupation, Mariupol’s cultural institutions have become propaganda and repression machines.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · Sep 9

3/3 Along with these changes, we decided that our site needed a makeover. We’ve tweaked our homepage to make it easier for you to explore our greatest hits, interviews with our contributors and more.

We’re so excited to share this new Dial with you, and we hope you like it!

Warmly,
The Editors

The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · Sep 9

2/ First, we’re getting rid of monthly themes. Instead, every week we’ll publish a mix of essays, journalism & literature from around the world. Some will be work that we’ve commissioned ourselves. Others will come from our partner publications, which we’ll translate into English for the first time.

The Dial is an online magazine of culture, politics, and ideas with a focus on locally sourced writing from around the world.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · Sep 9

1/ Dear readers,

The Dial is evolving. You talked, we listened — and have made a few changes to our magazine.

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Sep 4

unexpected and very nice to have a piece I wrote for the dial about baseball last year selected for this anthology! ⚾

the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

2/2 We believe in the protection of journalists across the world and their right to obtain information in order to tell important stories.