North Korea Across the Yalu River
BY MINAMI FUNAKOSHI When my friends and I arrived in Dandong, the largest border city in China, our first destination was duanqiao: The Broken Bridge. The bridge, which connects Dandong and Sinujiu, North Korea over the Yalu River, is a relic of the Korean War. Bombed by American aircraft, it serves as a reminder—or proof—of...
Mothers of the Revolution
BY SANJENA SATHIAN The first time Chanda Tamang was in jail, they beat her bloody. The second time, they tried to break her: They told her that her husband was dead. They watched her cry. Of the nine women with whom Chanda spent three months in jail, all were physically abused and five were sexually...
2020: India’s Imperfect Vision
by Daniel Gordon The thermometer was edging past 100 when Girija Dhaigavi met me at a Hindu temple in Janatavasahat, an Indian slum in Pune. One would not pin Mrs. Dhaigavi, a housewife and mother, as a fighter. In India, though, what you see is rarely what you get. A politically active woman with a master’s degree, she successfully petitioned the government to...
Agua Dulce
by Diana Saverin I met René Muñoz when he was two hours into his commute home after visiting his children in the nearest town. He arrived in a pickup truck with peeling red paint to a ranch where I was staying in Aysén, a region in Chilean Patagonia. He knocked on the door, kissed the cheeks of Lilli Schindele, her children, and me,...
Crusade, with Complications
by TaoTao Holmes It’s like poking a bear,” Kristin Braddock said. “You start doing good work in a community and this is what happens. You poke the bear, you wake it up.” And after a while, Braddock discovered, the bear bites back. Braddock, who is spearheading an income generation program in Delhi, has been a social worker in India for three years....
The Commission and the King
Bahrain lets international law decide its Arab Spring.
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