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A magazine of politics, culture and art
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So exciting. Congrats to the Equator team for building a new home for sharp writing from around the world. I can't wait to dive into this beautifully designed first issue.
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
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October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Excellent to see @warghetti.bsky.social in Equator Mag
Forced to become a "spokesperson for a broken place," Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer writes a powerful essay on why she's no longer explaining the Middle East for American newspapers www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Disaster Correspondent • Articles • EQUATOR
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
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October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨The most exciting new thing in journalism is here 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A strong essay which, among other things, takes aim at the cliché of Lebanese "resilience" so often invoked by outsiders.
Forced to become a "spokesperson for a broken place," Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer writes a powerful essay on why she's no longer explaining the Middle East for American newspapers www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Disaster Correspondent • Articles • EQUATOR
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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What a thrill to see @equatormag.bsky.social come to life. So many of my favorite people created this essential new magazine, and I can't wait to see where they take it. www.equator.org
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Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Vengo a recomendar esta revista, y este artículo en particular, que a mí me golpeó de todas las formas posibles como "experta en desarrollo sostenible" en recuperación. Nadie se salva solo.
The West has decided coastal Bangladesh will drown. Bangladeshis disagree. @amitav.bsky.social on apocalyptic thinking, disastrous "climate solutions," and who gets to imagine the future. With photos by
Dayanita Singh www.equator.org/articles/bey...
Beyond the Apocalypse • Articles • EQUATOR
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
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October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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A strong first issue for the new @equatormag.bsky.social.

Soyonbo Borjgin on a journalist’s life at 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘺

Here’s the opening paragraph and it just pretty much keeps going like this

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October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"It was not liberalism that bestowed upon America a utopian aura; it was the country’s sheer power, the sense of boundless strength it projected after its geopolitical win in the early 1990s."

Rahmane Idrissa for @equatormag.bsky.social
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Statemania • Articles • EQUATOR
When the American Dream came to Africa
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October 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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brilliant, gorgeous poems by aria aber in brilliant, gorgeous @equatormag.bsky.social
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Two Poems • Articles • EQUATOR
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October 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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All the pieces in the new @equatormag.bsky.social are amazing, but Lina Mounzer's examination of the "tyranny of hope" and the complacency with which Western media looks at the world struck a chord.
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The Disaster Correspondent • Articles • EQUATOR
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
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October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Remarkable piece.

“Never in history has so much of the Jewish leadership been stained with this much guilt – a guilt that can never be washed out.”
Pulitzer-Prize winner Ben Moser reflects on his Texas childhood and on how the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide in Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/we-...
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • Articles • EQUATOR
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
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October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"There was a line about a red-haired girl in Jaffa
and eating plums, and silverware – remember?"

Aria Aber, beautifully, in the @equatormag.bsky.social
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Two Poems • Articles • EQUATOR
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October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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"My dreams, once experienced in color, have turned grey."

Sondos Sabra's dispatch from the crime scene in the @equatormag.bsky.social
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Two Years of Genocide • Articles • EQUATOR
In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes that are nothing but dust
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October 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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"When the Soviet Union disintegrated, Bout reinvented himself as an arms dealer, selling weapons to Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and running guns for rebel groups in Africa. Eventually, he bought a mansion on the water in the United Arab Emirates."

@equatormag.bsky.social
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King of the Aral Sea • Articles • EQUATOR
A Central Asian travelogue, translated from Chinese by Dylan Levi King
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October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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👇🏽👇🏽

Always read anything @warghetti.bsky.social writes!
Forced to become a "spokesperson for a broken place," Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer writes a powerful essay on why she's no longer explaining the Middle East for American newspapers www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Disaster Correspondent • Articles • EQUATOR
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
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November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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When the apocalypse never comes. From great new mag @equatormag.bsky.social
Beyond the Apocalypse • Articles • EQUATOR
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
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November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Quite like this @equatormag.bsky.social outfit. This piece in particular is excellent:

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The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
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November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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"The Weekly printed the piece, and it launched my career – which came to an end five years later, in 2020, when the government abruptly shuttered the magazine." —Soyonbo Borjgin for the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social
The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
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November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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So honored to join @equatormag.bsky.social , born as a response to the horror in Palestine and inspired by a need to bring back meaning and hope amid today’s nihilism. 💪 I open with a personal piece about my last year in politics. Hope you’ll find it worth reading.

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Farewell to Podemos • Articles • EQUATOR
My decision to quit politics at 31
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October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
www.equator.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Great start to important new must read platform: The End of the West is not the End of the World!
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

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October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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DON'T BE A HAY-TER/
SUBSCRIBE TO THE EQUAY-TOR
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org
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Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM