Coronavirus

Istanbbul on a sunny day while pigeons are soaring in the air
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Socially Undistancing

The Okmeydani quarter in Istanbul is a melting pot of marginalized groups, including Kurds, Alevis, refugees and leftists. As the pandemic hit, the community responded with solidarity.

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The Resurrection of Habermas

What do the BLM protests and the Dominic Cummings scandal have in common? “The pandemic has pulled our society back together and the internet can briefly function as the great digital equalizer that was sold to us by the tech utopians of the 1990’s,” writes Firecrest. But will the angry summer of 2020 be cathartic or merely therapeutic?

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Illegal Streets

This photo series uncovers the people behind the faceless problem of homelessness in Hungary, where living on the streets is against the law.

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Person in medical scrubs navigating a touch screen wall filled with fake news.
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A Job for Elves

In the Baltic states on Europe’s eastern edge, the corona pandemic has breathed new life into bots and propagandists of all creeds and colors. But it has also provided those fighting disinformation a new sense of purpose.

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