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There’s a general belief that people of all ages are losing the ability to speak easily to one another. Can self-help books on how to have a conversation actually help us? Lamorna Ash asks. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Why Are We So Afraid of Conversation? — The Dial
A glut of self-help books promises to teach us to do it better.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There’s a general belief that people of all ages are losing the ability to speak easily to one another. Can self-help books on how to have a conversation actually help us? Lamorna Ash asks. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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"I found Fisher’s approach totally uncynical. His mission statement is simple and, in its simplicity, quite radical: We should enter conversations not to prove but to learn something." —Lamorna Ash for @thedialmag.bsky.social
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Why Are We So Afraid of Conversation? — The Dial
A glut of self-help books promises to teach us to do it better.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"I found Fisher’s approach totally uncynical. His mission statement is simple and, in its simplicity, quite radical: We should enter conversations not to prove but to learn something." —Lamorna Ash for @thedialmag.bsky.social
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“Learn all the cheat codes, participate in all the pre-game warmups: It’s still impossible to predict where a conversation might take you.” Lamorna Ash read three self-help books that promise to teach us how to have better conversations: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Why Are We So Afraid of Conversation? — The Dial
A glut of self-help books promises to teach us to do it better.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“Learn all the cheat codes, participate in all the pre-game warmups: It’s still impossible to predict where a conversation might take you.” Lamorna Ash read three self-help books that promise to teach us how to have better conversations: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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In 2018, two months before his 33rd birthday, Egyptian writer @ahmednaji.bsky.social arrived in the U.S. on a one-way ticket in a journey of exile and self-reinvention. These are excerpts from his journals from that time: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Las Vegas Diaries — The Dial
“These days I have no passport, no documents. And even if I manage to get one, I cannot return to Egypt.”
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November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In 2018, two months before his 33rd birthday, Egyptian writer @ahmednaji.bsky.social arrived in the U.S. on a one-way ticket in a journey of exile and self-reinvention. These are excerpts from his journals from that time: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Today, we’re kicking off our end-of-year fundraising campaign. Support The Dial in promoting the exchange of ideas across borders! www.thedial.world/support
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today, we’re kicking off our end-of-year fundraising campaign. Support The Dial in promoting the exchange of ideas across borders! www.thedial.world/support
When migrants die trying to reach Europe, their families become lost in a maze of bureaucracy and manipulation. Okba Mohammad and Anna Surinyach report on an institutional vacuum that leaves families in the dark and creates a vulnerability bad actors can exploit. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Search for Migrants’ Bodies — The Dial
When migrants die trying to reach Europe, their families become lost in a maze of bureaucracy and manipulation.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
When migrants die trying to reach Europe, their families become lost in a maze of bureaucracy and manipulation. Okba Mohammad and Anna Surinyach report on an institutional vacuum that leaves families in the dark and creates a vulnerability bad actors can exploit. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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"Rana Pratap and his home-grown start-up was the first time a scammer had approached me rather than the other way around. Things had come full circle. Someone had tried to scam me; I was now part of the story." —Snigdha Poonam for @thedialmag.bsky.social
The Scammer Next Door — The Dial
In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of graft.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Rana Pratap and his home-grown start-up was the first time a scammer had approached me rather than the other way around. Things had come full circle. Someone had tried to scam me; I was now part of the story." —Snigdha Poonam for @thedialmag.bsky.social
Twenty years ago, U.S. tech companies arrived in Ireland eager to set up their European headquarters in an English-speaking country with beneficial tax rates and an educated workforce.
What have they done for the people of Ireland?
@jesstraynor.bsky.social asks: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What have they done for the people of Ireland?
@jesstraynor.bsky.social asks: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What US Tech Did to Ireland — The Dial
The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Twenty years ago, U.S. tech companies arrived in Ireland eager to set up their European headquarters in an English-speaking country with beneficial tax rates and an educated workforce.
What have they done for the people of Ireland?
@jesstraynor.bsky.social asks: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What have they done for the people of Ireland?
@jesstraynor.bsky.social asks: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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Delighted to have a new article with The Dial - this time on tech giants, their alarming inflation of our GDP, and the mutation of the Dublin docklands from the early 2000s to today. Thanks to The Dial for the commission & their wonderful & astute editorial support.
Ireland is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple. Jessica Traynor reports on how U.S. technology companies have reshaped the economy, leaving it deeply exposed to President Trump’s tariffs: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What US Tech Did to Ireland — The Dial
The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Delighted to have a new article with The Dial - this time on tech giants, their alarming inflation of our GDP, and the mutation of the Dublin docklands from the early 2000s to today. Thanks to The Dial for the commission & their wonderful & astute editorial support.
Ireland is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple. Jessica Traynor reports on how U.S. technology companies have reshaped the economy, leaving it deeply exposed to President Trump’s tariffs: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What US Tech Did to Ireland — The Dial
The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.
www.thedial.world
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ireland is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple. Jessica Traynor reports on how U.S. technology companies have reshaped the economy, leaving it deeply exposed to President Trump’s tariffs: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
"As if on an edifying many-layered journey, it’s only now, seeing the warm color of the yolk, that the dissident truly realizes he’s in a different place, an older, mysterious place."
Read an excerpt from Carlos Manuel Álvarez's novel "False War," translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Read an excerpt from Carlos Manuel Álvarez's novel "False War," translated by Natasha Wimmer.
“False War,” by Carlos Manuel Álvarez — The Dial
The dissident in Berlin.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"As if on an edifying many-layered journey, it’s only now, seeing the warm color of the yolk, that the dissident truly realizes he’s in a different place, an older, mysterious place."
Read an excerpt from Carlos Manuel Álvarez's novel "False War," translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Read an excerpt from Carlos Manuel Álvarez's novel "False War," translated by Natasha Wimmer.
1/ The 2015 Paris Agreement set a goal to keep the rise in global temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Sophie Yeo considers whether it’s time to abandon the target. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What’s the Point of a Global Climate Target? — The Dial
Countries pledged to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Is it time to abandon it?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
1/ The 2015 Paris Agreement set a goal to keep the rise in global temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Sophie Yeo considers whether it’s time to abandon the target. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
In 2015, the UN set a climate goal to prevent the global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius. Sophie Yeo reports on how this target is becoming more and more obsolete, evolving from a tangible goal to a symbol of failure. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What’s the Point of a Global Climate Target? — The Dial
Countries pledged to keep global warming to 1.5C. Is it time to abandon it?
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November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In 2015, the UN set a climate goal to prevent the global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius. Sophie Yeo reports on how this target is becoming more and more obsolete, evolving from a tangible goal to a symbol of failure. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
In 2015, the UN set a climate goal to prevent the global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius. Sophie Yeo reports on how this target is becoming more and more obsolete, evolving from a tangible goal to a symbol of failure: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What’s the Point of a Global Climate Target? — The Dial
Countries pledged to keep global warming to 1.5C. Is it time to abandon it?
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November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In 2015, the UN set a climate goal to prevent the global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius. Sophie Yeo reports on how this target is becoming more and more obsolete, evolving from a tangible goal to a symbol of failure: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
1/ One day in 2020, Snigdha Poonam got a call from an unknown number. She was told she won a lottery for Rs 25 lakh ($28,400). There was just one problem: she hadn’t bought a lottery ticket. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Scammer Next Door — The Dial
In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of graft.
www.thedial.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
1/ One day in 2020, Snigdha Poonam got a call from an unknown number. She was told she won a lottery for Rs 25 lakh ($28,400). There was just one problem: she hadn’t bought a lottery ticket. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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To celebrate both next week’s release of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories and translator @gayadorno.bsky.social being a Literary Host at tonight’s @wwborders.bsky.social Gala, check out an excerpt of this Kurdish novel @thedialmag.bsky.social. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
“The Competition of Unfinished Stories,” by Sener Ozmen — The Dial
An excerpt from the book.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
To celebrate both next week’s release of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories and translator @gayadorno.bsky.social being a Literary Host at tonight’s @wwborders.bsky.social Gala, check out an excerpt of this Kurdish novel @thedialmag.bsky.social. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Canada was founded in deliberate defiance of the U.S. Forty years ago, when Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney opened free trade talks with the Reagan administration, it lost sight of that north star. That decision has come back to haunt the country, writes @donalgill.bsky.social:
Canada’s Heroic Delusion — The Dial
The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Canada was founded in deliberate defiance of the U.S. Forty years ago, when Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney opened free trade talks with the Reagan administration, it lost sight of that north star. That decision has come back to haunt the country, writes @donalgill.bsky.social:
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It was a great pleasure to work with this great team at @thedialmag.bsky.social on this piece, something of a love letter to Canadian cultural nationalism interspersed with political and economic history. It all reverberates in Canada’s terrible position vis-a-vis the Trump admin. today 🇨🇦🍁
Canada’s embrace of free trade with the U.S. 40 years ago has come back to haunt it. To understand how, Dónal Gill winds the clock back to 1988 — the year the country abandoned its axiomatic principle: its separateness from the U.S.
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Canada’s Heroic Delusion — The Dial
The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.
www.thedial.world
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It was a great pleasure to work with this great team at @thedialmag.bsky.social on this piece, something of a love letter to Canadian cultural nationalism interspersed with political and economic history. It all reverberates in Canada’s terrible position vis-a-vis the Trump admin. today 🇨🇦🍁
Canada’s embrace of free trade with the U.S. 40 years ago has come back to haunt it. To understand how, Dónal Gill winds the clock back to 1988 — the year the country abandoned its axiomatic principle: its separateness from the U.S.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Canada’s Heroic Delusion — The Dial
The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.
www.thedial.world
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Canada’s embrace of free trade with the U.S. 40 years ago has come back to haunt it. To understand how, Dónal Gill winds the clock back to 1988 — the year the country abandoned its axiomatic principle: its separateness from the U.S.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments—
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
“Driver” by Mattia Fillice — The Dial
An excerpt.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments—
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
In Ireland, archeologists and forensic scientists are searching for the remains of nearly 800 children who died while in the care of nuns. Can these excavations uncover the truth? www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can Excavations Uncover the Truth? — The Dial
In Ireland, archeologists and forensic scientists are searching for the remains of nearly 800 children who died while in the care of nuns.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In Ireland, archeologists and forensic scientists are searching for the remains of nearly 800 children who died while in the care of nuns. Can these excavations uncover the truth? www.thedial.world/articles/new...
In 2021, only 22% of people in sub-Saharan Africa were using mobile internet. Meta is building a $1 billion submarine cable that promises to better connect the continent. What will it ask for in return? Samanth Subramanian reports:
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The Race for Cheap, Quick Data in Africa — The Dial
Meta has invested heavily in a submarine cable to Africa. What will it ask for in return?
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October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In 2021, only 22% of people in sub-Saharan Africa were using mobile internet. Meta is building a $1 billion submarine cable that promises to better connect the continent. What will it ask for in return? Samanth Subramanian reports:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...