slums

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Appeared in the October 28, 2025, print edition as 'Argentine Slums Propelled Milei'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Slums have been demolished and monkeys and stray dogs removed from the streets.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

Slums and shantytowns are often targeted in rampant demolitions across Africa’s most populous country, and especially in Abuja.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2023

His assignment was to work with local residents in creating the furniture for the Why Not Academy, a primary school that Live in Slums helped develop starting in 2012.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

In Guillemot Street below that the guillemots held their sharp, toy-like faces upward, as thrushes do when hatching, Lowest of all, there were the Kittiwake Slums.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White