Our reporter Emiliano Rodríguez Mega visits the highly polluted Endhó Dam, which some call Mexico’s toilet bowl. People who live nearby say that sickness is everywhere.

Our polling reporter Ruth Igielnik describes what likely voters told us in the latest Times/Siena poll leading up to this year’s midterm elections.

Kyrgyzstan has turned into a crucial middleman for Russia to import goods from China since the start of the Ukraine war. Paul Sonne, our Moscow bureau chief, traveled to Kyrgyzstan to see its skyrocketing economic growth.