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Christina Thornell

Foreign Video

Christina Thornell is a video journalist based in New York. She produces, researches and makes web videos for Vox Borders, Vox Atlas and Vox Voices.

How Iran’s repression machine works

By Christina Thornell December 22

How Qatar built stadiums with forced labor

By Christina Thornell December 1

Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.

By Christina Thornell November 2

Why Queen Elizabeth II was queen of 15 countries

By Christina Thornell September 28

Humans finally figured out how to make it rain

By Christina Thornell August 3

Why Germany is hooked on Russian gas

By Christina Thornell May 18

How China uses fruit to punish Taiwan

By Christina Thornell April 1

What it’s like to flee Ukraine

By Christina Thornell March 18

Understand Russia’s war on Ukraine in less than 10 minutes

By Christina Thornell, Rajaa Elidrissi, and 1 more March 3

Why the Belarus migrant crisis is different

By Christina Thornell December 7, 2021