Field Notes: Working the Bricks in Myanmar
Mingaladon Township, Myanmar: Laborers in a brick factory, about an hour's drive from the new hotels and shopping malls of the city of Yangon, get by on $3 per day.
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Field Notes: Casting About in an Overfished River
Assam, India: At sunset a fisherman casts his net on a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, where commercial overfishing has made it more difficult to operate.
Letter From Berkeley, California: The Tsar Bell
The largest bell in the world sits in a courtyard at the Kremlin as a 200-ton tourist attraction. It has never been heard—until now, using digital tools.
Letter From Lesotho: Racism in the Diamond Mine
Desperate for work, the Basotho miners of the sovereign kingdom of Lesotho grudgingly accept the daily degradations of life among the white men.
Field Notes: Where Migrants Crossed the Rio Grande
Reynosa, Mexico: Fresh footprints of migrants dot the bed of a dried pond just south of Mission, Texas, near the Rio Grande.
Letter From Los Algodones, Mexico: The City of Dentists
A trip to Los Algodones, the town just south of the border where it seems almost everybody is either a dentist or works for one.