Mexico City is in the midst of a water crisis so severe it may soon run completely dry. As the nation heads to the polls in June, water is becoming a sink-or-swim issue for those vying to take on the presidency, writes Daniel Shailer for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-…

Six companies are responsible for a quarter of the Earth's plastic waste.

Yes, you read that right. Six.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, Altria, and Philip Morris International were the main culprits identified in a recent report. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

An insightful piece on the campus protests — and the outsized response — from a professor who teaches journalism students how to cover the Middle East at UT Austin. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/teac…

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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Columbia University, home to the Pulitzer Prizes, National Magazine Awards and duPont, appears to be doing everything to make sure there is no reporting to document what's happening on campus right now.

Thank god for student journalists at Columbia Journalism, Columbia Daily Spectator, WKCR-FM NY.

Give this episode of Global Insights a listen... Our colleague Lisa Goldman spent several weeks on the ground in Israel and in the West Bank and has some really profound insights about what life is like there right now.

The remarkable works of the polymath Abu Rayhan al-Biruni were shaped by the turbulent politics of medieval Central Asia and, especially, the captured Indian Brahmins with whom he studied. James Montgomery and Lydia Wilson explore his life for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/essays/how-the…

Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide, the country’s young people continue to deal with the complexities of healing and moving on from the past, reports Lauren Watson for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/reportage/rwan…

Fantastic news! The #NigeriasMassGraves report (by HumAngle_ x New Lines Magazine) made it into the list of top entries for this year's Livingston Awards.

The Fiasco of Iranian Diaspora Politics

How personal schisms and political myopia in the opposition abroad prevented the Woman, Life, Freedom movement from bringing down the Islamic Republic

By Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی in New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-f…

A visceral insight into life in the devastated Gaza strip, from Arwa Damon who recently went on a humanitarian mission with INARA. She recounts her experience to Faisal Al Yafai of New Lines Magazine on The Lede. newlinesmag.com/podcast/on-the…