Grandmothers used DNA to find stolen children
Under Argentina’s military dictatorship, children’s identities were rewritten. Decades later, Grandmothers used DNA to restore them and changed how the world seeks justice.
Newsletters
This is a four-part investigative series tracing how recent famines were engineered through political actions.
Recent posts
EXPLORE BY THEME
🦠Forgotten Outbreaks & Lost Diseases
Uncovering outbreaks and diseases that history forgot, or never fully explained.
👥 How Societies Responded to Disease
When disease tested societies, and how they chose to respond.
✊ Radical Health Movements & Ideals
These are the bold social movements and ideas that transformed the meaning of health and justice.
🌍 Our Environment, Our Health
Pollution, radiation, heat: the environmental crises that rewrote public health.
🏛️ Empires, Health & Power
Colonial empires and their influence on health, disease, and who bore the cost.
Health Checks on History
History’s outbreaks, policies and turning points that built public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.