Prologue

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.

For more than fifty years, Jeanne Darst’s dad neglected to tell his entire family about their entire family. (13 minutes)

Ira’s story of Yibin Li continues.

Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union.

Protestors came out across Russia after the Ukraine invasion.