Editors’ Note

The Dial 6/20/23 The Dial 6/20/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 5: Debt

Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23 Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23

My Literary Breakup

Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.

Jacob Kushner 6/15/23 Jacob Kushner 6/15/23

The Infrastructure Trap

Kenya's $5 billion railway to nowhere is exacerbating debt and corruption.

Emily Schultheis 6/13/23 Emily Schultheis 6/13/23

The Black Zero

Germany reappraises its financial fetish.

Joshua Kucera 6/8/23 Joshua Kucera 6/8/23

The Writing on the Wall

Georgia struggles to adjust to an influx of Russian exiles.

Sophie Poole 6/6/23 Sophie Poole 6/6/23

Undoing the Alhambra Decree

Is Spain’s citizenship program for Sephardic Jews the best way to right past wrongs?

Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23 Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23

The Danger of Microfinance

Small loans in Cambodia drown the poor and buoy the rich.

Snigdha Poonam 5/30/23 Snigdha Poonam 5/30/23

The Dark World of Deepfaked Debt

India’s online loan sharks are blackmailing borrowers with fake images.

Shin Hae-uk (Tr. Spencer Lee-Lenfield) 5/30/23 Shin Hae-uk (Tr. Spencer Lee-Lenfield) 5/30/23

Debt

A poem.

The Dial used to publish monthly themed issues. You can find them here