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A Square Meal
… the lookout for the little piece of pasteboard that would complete my collection, add another valence to its scope, or … hadn’t then attained a dominant sense of conscious social commentary (excepting the battlefield photography of Mathew … In them, we see art, craft, and design. The cards can also reanimate destroyed buildings and streets long …
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The Second Fire
… is slowly expanding and could, over millennia, eventually become an ocean. Image We journeyed to Siberia with an … foul the beaches during the summer, and there is a mass die-off of Baikal’s precious green sponges, which play an … pressures accompanying a surge in tourism. On March 1, 2026, a new amendment to federal law, signed by Vladimir …
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In the Silences Between Caution and Hope
… It’s easy to be cynical about Syria. Westerners have become largely inured to the bad news coming out of the … “I am shaking with joy. I feel a mourning for everyone who died for no reason, but we are finally free.” Since those … shooting at the army, abducting soldiers from the checkpoints, killing, raping, whatever they wanted. I was so …
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The Next Cold War
… Arctic, you’ll need skis and tanks, of course, but you may also need newspapers. The Fins have been using this cheap, … long been part of the Finnish strategy. Image A Finnish soldier practices lighting a fire without matches or a lighter. … to cover the war, what ended up being a five-year commitment, and about a year or so into that assignment I …
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Facing Mogadishu
… see the rows of pre-dug graves patiently awaiting the bodies that would fill them, or the children who had been … rains. All day and night, I listened to outgoing and incoming fire. Al Shabaab was firing small arms and mortars at … A South African medic who came to pick me up commented on points of interest. “Down that street,” he said, “that’s …
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By Its Cover
… you can never go back. Without covers, hardcover books become confident blocks of wood—they don’t shimmy or slide in … orange wind-up bird toy against a baby-blue background gradient. Geoff Spear photographed the toy so that most of it … what I want for my own journey as a creative person. It also illustrates the process of finding solutions in design …
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