“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.”
Mexico
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Of Tacos y Heartbreak
“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.”
Posted inStory
Los Desaparecidos
Women in Sinaloa, Mexico, are searching for the remains of “disappeared” loved ones — and cooking to keep their memories of the dead alive.
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Hunting the Men Who Kill Women: Mexico’s Femicide Detective
“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.”
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Where Surveillance Cameras Work But the Justice System Doesn’t
“Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.”
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Is the Cure for Cancer Locked in Shrunken Heads from the Amazon?
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?
Posted inNonfiction
Motherhood on the Line
Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Memory Weavers
“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?
“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.”
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My Journey Through Tijuana for the Best Surgery $2,000 Can Buy
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.