On the coast of Nicaragua, Mariana van Zeller looks into white lobster, the not-so-rare but valuable "species" typically found in the waters and on the...
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Methamphetamine is a bad drug. Most people know this. The Current Vanguard team looks at how the forces of globalization-technology, international networks, and...
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Kaj Larsen looks at the devastating effects of crystal methamphetamine on Hawaii--a state with one of the highest rates of meth use in the U.S.
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In the last decade, methamphetamine swept out of California superlabs to become the most widely-abused hard drug in the U.S. The battle against meth production has...
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Vanguard Correspondent Christof Putzel investigates how the combination of crystal meth and the internet is fueling HIV infections among California's gay community.
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While in Vietnam, Laura Ling experiences a unique treatment that is said to help one's health.
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Some people collect coins, others collect...foot calluses.
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Christof Putzel takes an unsettling trip on one of the rickety old Russian planes that fly in and out of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Current's Adam Yamaguchi goes to otherworldly Madagascar, an island struggling to flourish after bouts with environmental suicide.
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California State Prison at Corcoran is a maximum security facility that houses some of the most violent inmates in the country. Laura Ling reports on the complex...
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The biggest mass migration of people is happening in China. Over 100 million migrants have moved from the poor countryside to the cities in search of work. Laura Ling...
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Millions of Iraqis have been displaced since the beginning of the war. Mariana van Zeller speaks with Iraqi refugees who are now living in Syria, but anxious to get...
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Remittances sent by migrant workers to their home countries total more than all foreign investment in the developing world. In Mexico, remittances are the second...
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Current's Mariana van Zeller heads to the Brazilian Amazon to search for the fabled Kambo frog, one of many organisms that could hold secrets for modern...
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A Vanguard Special Report: In the summer of 2006, Current's Christof Putzel and Kaj Larsen ventured to Mogadishu, Somalia to explore how the city was adjusting...
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Turkey thought that it had defeated the PKK, a Kurdish insurgent group labelled a terrorist organization by the U.S. Then the U.S. invaded Iraq, and now the PKK is...
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Kaj Larsen investigates the practice of waterboarding, an interrogation practice allegedly used by the U.S. government. Is it a legitimate technique or torture?
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Laura Ling goes to China where an information battle is taking place between China's 120 million Internet users and the Chinese government's web censors.
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Current's Christof Putzel investigates a growing movement in Russia where neo-Nazi groups are brutally attacking immigrants and spreading their hate by posting...
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Current's Mariana van Zeller travels to one of the most unstable regions in the world - Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. She investigates what's behind...
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