ISSUE 10: FAKES

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ISSUE 10: FAKES ✺

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Editors’ Note
The Dial
Editors’ Note
The Dial

Issue 10: Fakes

The Dial
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
Eve Fairbanks
Essay
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
Eve Fairbanks
Essay

The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

Eve Fairbanks
Essay
The Norway Model
Ida Lødemel Tvedt
Essay
The Norway Model
Ida Lødemel Tvedt
Essay

How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.

Ida Lødemel Tvedt
Essay
The Kurdish Ulysses
Kaya Genç
Essay
The Kurdish Ulysses
Kaya Genç
Essay

Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.

Kaya Genç
Essay
How to Deepfake an Election
Ondřej Kundra (Tr. Alex Zucker)
Reporting
How to Deepfake an Election
Ondřej Kundra (Tr. Alex Zucker)
Reporting

In Slovakia, a digitally altered video swung a recent national election.

Ondřej Kundra (Tr. Alex Zucker)
Reporting
Those Who Have Done Nothing
John Gibler & Miguel Tovar (Tr. Jessica Sequeira)
Photo Essay
Those Who Have Done Nothing
John Gibler & Miguel Tovar (Tr. Jessica Sequeira)
Photo Essay

El Salvador’s “regime of deception.”

John Gibler & Miguel Tovar (Tr. Jessica Sequeira)
Photo Essay
The Frog That Couldn’t Jump
Kim Ju-sŏng (Tr. Meredith Shaw)
Memoir
The Frog That Couldn’t Jump
Kim Ju-sŏng (Tr. Meredith Shaw)
Memoir

“I felt like questioning my own existence. What are these people? Is this still North Korea?”

Kim Ju-sŏng (Tr. Meredith Shaw)
Memoir
The AI Accomplice
Snigdha Poonam
Reporting
The AI Accomplice
Snigdha Poonam
Reporting

“Do you still love me knowing that I’m an assassin?” “Absolutely I do.”

Snigdha Poonam
Reporting
How to Be a Good Soldier’s Wife
Darya Kucherenko & Rita Loginova (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi)
Reporting
How to Be a Good Soldier’s Wife
Darya Kucherenko & Rita Loginova (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi)
Reporting

Russian women embrace the rules of wartime femininity.

Darya Kucherenko & Rita Loginova (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi)
Reporting
Media Mogul on a Mission
Jan-Werner Müller
Book Review
Media Mogul on a Mission
Jan-Werner Müller
Book Review

Mathias Döpfner’s new memoir The Trade Trap is part policy manifesto, part declamation of political beliefs.

Jan-Werner Müller
Book Review