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2/2 Naya Lyberth recalls when she and her classmates in Maniitsoq were forced to receive an IUD: “When I had the 'spiral', it was like stab wounds inside me and it was so painful.” Read the story, and view the photos: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
September 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
2/2 Naya Lyberth recalls when she and her classmates in Maniitsoq were forced to receive an IUD: “When I had the 'spiral', it was like stab wounds inside me and it was so painful.” Read the story, and view the photos: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
3/3 Along with these changes, we decided that our site needed a makeover. We’ve tweaked our homepage to make it easier for you to explore our greatest hits, interviews with our contributors and more.
We’re so excited to share this new Dial with you, and we hope you like it!
Warmly,
The Editors
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Warmly,
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1/ Dear readers,
The Dial is evolving. You talked, we listened — and have made a few changes to our magazine.
The Dial is evolving. You talked, we listened — and have made a few changes to our magazine.
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1/ Dear readers,
The Dial is evolving. You talked, we listened — and have made a few changes to our magazine.
The Dial is evolving. You talked, we listened — and have made a few changes to our magazine.
2/ Through his memories, we glimpse a past filled with hardship and imagination — a story of a little boy named Sertac, raised in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan with “neither family nor tribe to be proud of,” who dreams up a friendship with Neil Armstrong.
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
2/ Through his memories, we glimpse a past filled with hardship and imagination — a story of a little boy named Sertac, raised in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan with “neither family nor tribe to be proud of,” who dreams up a friendship with Neil Armstrong.
Read Yau Ching's poem, "Highway," translated by Chenxin Jiang: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
August 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Read Yau Ching's poem, "Highway," translated by Chenxin Jiang: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Following the fall of the Assad regime, Lynzy Billing traveled to Damascus to comb through the archives of the Syrian civil war. Up to 200,000 people were disappeared. She photographed objects of prisoners and records of those arrested or who have gone missing: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
August 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Following the fall of the Assad regime, Lynzy Billing traveled to Damascus to comb through the archives of the Syrian civil war. Up to 200,000 people were disappeared. She photographed objects of prisoners and records of those arrested or who have gone missing: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Check out Lavender Au's recommendation, and donate today: www.thedial.world/summer-readi...
August 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Check out Lavender Au's recommendation, and donate today: www.thedial.world/summer-readi...
4/ Despite unanimous acknowledgement of the urgency of the climate crisis, Mauritius’ government is severely restricted by its weak economy. As many of the nation’s pleas to major polluters in the global North fall on deaf ears, Mauritians long to protect the beauty and vitality of their island.
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
4/ Despite unanimous acknowledgement of the urgency of the climate crisis, Mauritius’ government is severely restricted by its weak economy. As many of the nation’s pleas to major polluters in the global North fall on deaf ears, Mauritians long to protect the beauty and vitality of their island.
3/ “There are shots of a flooded nursery, Mickey Mouse cribs rippling in filth. Another woman says she has nothing left. She cries as she recounts her misfortunes, which have come to her in quick succession."
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
3/ “There are shots of a flooded nursery, Mickey Mouse cribs rippling in filth. Another woman says she has nothing left. She cries as she recounts her misfortunes, which have come to her in quick succession."
2/ Towns are ravaged by freak tornadoes, and drowned by torrential rain and flash floods; clean water is in short supply. When the skies clear, excessive heat is commonplace. Under these climate pressures, Mauritius’ families are struggling to survive.
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
2/ Towns are ravaged by freak tornadoes, and drowned by torrential rain and flash floods; clean water is in short supply. When the skies clear, excessive heat is commonplace. Under these climate pressures, Mauritius’ families are struggling to survive.
5/ On his way back from the beach, Daffy passes the Barbados Turf Club, the organization that regulates horse racing in Barbados.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
5/ On his way back from the beach, Daffy passes the Barbados Turf Club, the organization that regulates horse racing in Barbados.
4/ Jammin, one the oldest grooms on the island, returns from swimming in the open waters with his horse.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
4/ Jammin, one the oldest grooms on the island, returns from swimming in the open waters with his horse.
3/ Hayden, who has been a horse groom since he was 16, scrubs down Dream Lake after a swim. He feeds, cleans and looks after two horses between training and races.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
3/ Hayden, who has been a horse groom since he was 16, scrubs down Dream Lake after a swim. He feeds, cleans and looks after two horses between training and races.
2/ At dawn, sometimes as early as 4 a.m., grooms and their horses take over Pebbles Beach.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
2/ At dawn, sometimes as early as 4 a.m., grooms and their horses take over Pebbles Beach.
4/ “The women I’ve had in my life have all been single,” Lucie tells Loubat. “My mother and all my aunts lost their husbands and remained widows. They managed on their own. Maybe that’s why, for me, it wasn’t that hard to imagine.”
June 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
4/ “The women I’ve had in my life have all been single,” Lucie tells Loubat. “My mother and all my aunts lost their husbands and remained widows. They managed on their own. Maybe that’s why, for me, it wasn’t that hard to imagine.”
3/ Lucie had her son via donated sperm and in vitro fertilization. “Everything I went through: the daily injections, the mood swings … the nights when you can’t sleep because you’re in so much pain. … After all that, I’m really proud to have this little one in my belly,” she tells Loubat.
June 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
3/ Lucie had her son via donated sperm and in vitro fertilization. “Everything I went through: the daily injections, the mood swings … the nights when you can’t sleep because you’re in so much pain. … After all that, I’m really proud to have this little one in my belly,” she tells Loubat.
2/ In this photo essay, Loubat tells the story of one woman, Lucie, who made a choice to become a mother alone: “My only goal was to have a child, and men were a means to an end … what I wanted was just sperm.”
June 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
2/ In this photo essay, Loubat tells the story of one woman, Lucie, who made a choice to become a mother alone: “My only goal was to have a child, and men were a means to an end … what I wanted was just sperm.”
4/ “Unfortunately, the timing is great for American readers,” Lily Meyer writes. “Mafalda’s character-defining question to her father—‘Can you explain why humanity is a disaster?’—is one I ask myself every day as I read the news.”
May 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
4/ “Unfortunately, the timing is great for American readers,” Lily Meyer writes. “Mafalda’s character-defining question to her father—‘Can you explain why humanity is a disaster?’—is one I ask myself every day as I read the news.”
2/ The central conceit of “Mafalda,” created and illustrated by Joaquin Salvado Lavado Téjon, is Mafalda’s obsession with the state of Argentina and the world. She listens to the radio and studies her surroundings to understand why the world is so disappointing.
May 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
2/ The central conceit of “Mafalda,” created and illustrated by Joaquin Salvado Lavado Téjon, is Mafalda’s obsession with the state of Argentina and the world. She listens to the radio and studies her surroundings to understand why the world is so disappointing.
4/ “I often think about a wedding I photographed in one of the villages in 2019,” Grigalashvili writes. “It was simple but full of warmth—neighbors gathering to prepare food, make music and dance late into the night. Celebrations like this still happen occasionally, but they’ve become less common.”
May 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
4/ “I often think about a wedding I photographed in one of the villages in 2019,” Grigalashvili writes. “It was simple but full of warmth—neighbors gathering to prepare food, make music and dance late into the night. Celebrations like this still happen occasionally, but they’ve become less common.”
3/ The region lacks quality education, health care and essential public services; electricity outages are common and during harsh winters these communities are cut off from the outside world. Many families are leaving for better opportunities elsewhere.
May 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
3/ The region lacks quality education, health care and essential public services; electricity outages are common and during harsh winters these communities are cut off from the outside world. Many families are leaving for better opportunities elsewhere.
2/ The villages in this region have lived in close connection with the land. Every spring, people move their cattle to higher pastures, where they spend the summer harvesting hay and preparing for the winter. When the cold hits, they return to the lowland.
May 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
2/ The villages in this region have lived in close connection with the land. Every spring, people move their cattle to higher pastures, where they spend the summer harvesting hay and preparing for the winter. When the cold hits, they return to the lowland.