{"title":"World Events","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe stories behind the headlines. 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Crumb and Art Spiegelman\" (\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePaying the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. 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