magazine
a newman-julis initiative
Dispatches


As Tokyo hosted the 2020 Olympics — a year late — a journalist found Asia's largest city shrouded in eerie calm.

New Zealand's exemplary response to COVID-19 nonetheless revealed a society still struggling with inequality.

Why measuring the impact of COVID-19 in Afghanistan is so difficult.

In a year when COVID-19 triggered shutdowns nearly everywhere, life in Taiwan proceeded almost normally. How'd they do it?

South Korea's impressive numbers belie a more complicated reality.

Trips to Pyongyang tell one story; meetings with defectors, another.

A journalist peers inside Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir.