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Oct 29, 2025

Equator is live. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world:

Iran After America: a new interview with @vali_nasr on Trump’s defeat, how the West still misreads Tehran, and the Islamic Republic’s new generation of leaders – ‘these are not ideologues like Trotsky and Lenin, they are Brezhnevs and Stalins.’

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Jul 30

In 2019, Mexican police found 21 kidnapped men in a hidden mountain labour camp where cartels had effectively enslaved them. A team of reporters at @quintoelab spent 5 years tracking them down and recording their stories of rescue and return: equator.org/articles/we-we…

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Jul 29

For five years, @marcelaturati, @ebudasoff and @Thelmagomezdura have investigated forced labour camps run by drug cartels in Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara mountains. This is an edited, abridged excerpt of their shocking report... [1]

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Jul 29

“It is impossible to understand America’s place in the world today – a world that is losing the habit of trying to become more American – without attending to the stories Americans tell themselves about their nation.” Mukul Kesavan on liberal histories:

Mystic Chords of Memory • EQUATOR

From equator.org