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Posted inEditor's Pick

A Championship Season in Mariachi Country

by Seyward Darby November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

“Every year along the Texas border, high school teams battle it out in one of the nation’s most intense championship rivalries. But they’re not playing football.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Of Tacos y Heartbreak

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 10, 2022November 11, 2022

“The tacos I eat here in the U.S. are not the tacos my family eats in Mexico. They come close but there’s something missing. Maybe it’s the salt.”

A woman lying down and a bowl of food
Posted inStory

Los Desaparecidos

by Longreads December 8, 2021October 12, 2022

Women in Sinaloa, Mexico, are searching for the remains of “disappeared” loved ones — and cooking to keep their memories of the dead alive.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Hunting the Men Who Kill Women: Mexico’s Femicide Detective

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 25, 2021October 19, 2022

“But if Guerrera was part of a movement of journalists chronicling the murders of women, she went one step further. She started trying to solve them, too.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Where Surveillance Cameras Work But the Justice System Doesn’t

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.”

Posted inQuotes

Is the Cure for Cancer Locked in Shrunken Heads from the Amazon?

by Seyward Darby January 5, 2021October 12, 2022

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?

Posted inNonfiction

Motherhood on the Line

by Alice Driver December 2, 2020October 18, 2022

Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Memory Weavers

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 18, 2020October 19, 2022

“Transforming craft into an act of protest against indifference, against the lack of willpower to reverse or address a societal ill, is something that Mexican women, and women around the world, are familiar with.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

by Alice Driver August 11, 2020November 4, 2022

“Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Journey Through Tijuana for the Best Surgery $2,000 Can Buy

by Sari Botton February 20, 2020October 19, 2022

In Tijuana, uninsured freelancers Amy Martyn and her husband Aaron pursue inexpensive orthopedic surgery for his doubly broken ankle. For both better and worse, they get what they paid for.

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