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Updated 2025-07-02 13:46
Trump's America is showing the telltale signs of a failing state
Our country is at a crossroads, and the right path forward must not include Donald Trump as president.
Trump fired Comey: Cue the hilarious cartoons worldwide
President Trump fired his FBI Director. Cartoonists: pick up your pencils.
Trump might send thousands more troops to Afghanistan. Here's what US vets are saying about it.
Veterans tell us what they think of a plan that might increase the US presence in Afghanistan.
This aged well: Mexico's Café Tacvba still rocks, hard
Café Tacvba puts out its first album in five years, and rock is just one of the ingredients.
Former NSA director says this White House can't handle the truth
During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, it was revealed that both former President Barack Obama and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned the Trump administration about Gen. Michael Flynn.
EPA budget cuts threaten programs to reduce kids' exposure to lead paint
The Trump administration's budget eliminates programs that help reduce the risks of lead paint exposure in children, alarming doctors and other public health advocates.
Women veterans are finally getting their due — in cartoons
These women vets are sharing their stories for a cartoon book about their time in the service.
In Moldova, speaking the wrong language once had serious consequences
This week, The World in Words podcast visits the Moldova Authentic Restaurant in Newton, Massachusetts. Patrick Cox and Nina Porzucki talk with restaurant owners Artur and Sandra Andronic about their mother tongue. Also, what happens if you put a group of monolingual speakers of different languages on a deserted island? Linguist Derek Bickerton was determined to find out.
How Florida keeps kids in the criminal justice system
From June 2015 to June 2016, police arrested more young people in Orange County than Miami-Dade County, where the population is nearly double. Nearly 64 percent of those incarcerated are black boys.
Lawyer, soldier, activist, president: Who is Moon Jae-in?
Left-leaning Moon Jae-in won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide.
Macron faces the huge task of uniting a fractured, anxious country
At 39, the former investment banker will become France's youngest-ever president when he is inaugurated next weekend after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday.
How Russia’s hacking and influence ops help Putin
Another election, another hack. So was this a “fail” for Russia’s propaganda agencies?
Spring's early arrival is a troubling indicator of climate change
Since 2004, Boston University professor Richard Primack and his students have been documenting the same things as Henry David Thoreau did in his book, "Walden."
A brother and sister flee gang violence in El Salvador and start over in the US
They had their mother's blessing, but she misses them terribly.
The return of Senegal's Orchestra Baobab
It's been 10 years since Orchestra Baobab's last album. However, one of their key members didn't take part on their new release because he wanted to continue to practice law.
The story of heroin shows how medicine advances ‘slowly and painfully’
Science gave us penicillin, space travel and computers. But, it also gave us TNT, guns and heroin. Paul Offit tells us about when science goes wrong.
Why 80 asylum-seekers are marching to the US southern border, even though they'll probably be turned away
Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and Honduran migrants are participating in the Caravan of Refugees to advocate for the right to request asylum.
A new law rolls back certain internet privacy measures. How can you shield your browsing data?
A new law allows internet service providers to mine and sell your internet browsing history. Two privacy experts outline practical steps you can take to help mask your online communications.
Lisbon’s serious fado fans go underground
They want to get away from the tourists and their iPhone cameras.
The death and life of the Great Lakes
Dreams of trade spurred construction of the St Lawrence Seaway, opening the Great Lakes to intercontinental shipping. The Seaway also transformed the lakes' ecosystems, thanks to unintended biological hitch-hikers such as Quagga and Zebra mussels.
From oral history, a 14,000-year-old archaeological discovery
For thousands of years, the Heiltsuk people of Canada have passed down a record of surviving the ice age in an area that didn’t freeze over. Now, archaeologists working in the region have uncovered the physical evidence.
Could there be life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? New research raises the possibility.
The moon has a large liquid ocean and lots of hydrogen — the fuel for microbial life.
Finland's guaranteed basic income is working to tackle poverty
Entire villages in Kenya have been receiving a basic income through a charity program, there's a small test initiative in the Netherlands, India is considering it, and Canada is rolling out a basic income pilot program in several cities in Ontario this summer. But it’s Finland that may be the farthest along.
Trump thinks Australia ‘has better health care’ than the US. He's 'right.'
Australia has universal health care, while the US currently has a patchwork system of government-provided, employer-provided and individually purchased plans.
The US alt-right 'meme war' to sway the French election is failing
Much of the content was lost in translation — quite literally.
China's first domestically made passenger jet is a warning to Boeing and Airbus
The world's fastest-growing aviation market wants to stop buying foreign-made planes. Or at least not as many.
A Palestinian cartoonist draws the Israeli occupation
It's the occupation, stupid. Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh says the Arab-Israeli struggle is not about a particular conflict. It's about the daily humiliations of occupation.
Why French pollsters do it better
French pollsters have spent the past 15 years working out a strategy to get a more accurate picture of National Front supporters.
There's a new branch in the huge Antarctic ice crack
The new branch appeared even though winter has come to Antarctica.
Technology is transforming societies more deeply than the political vibrations of 2017
Does it really matter who wins the French election? It might matter more who is running Facebook.
How Trump's latest budget impacts women and girls, from classrooms to cops
Threats to cut US spending on development abroad would impact women and girls. Across Women's Lives has analyzed the numbers.
Policy or discrimination? UMass Amherst student prevented from carrying Tibetan flag at graduation.
A Tibetan student won't be allowed to carry her country's flag in a graduation ceremony's parade of flags. UMass Amherst says it's policy. Kalsang Nangpa says it's discrimination.
If money can't buy happiness, many Chinese now seek spiritiual meaning
A search for meaning is underway in China, after generations grew up with the Communist Party destroying temples and churches, persecuting the religious, and telling the young that religion was the opiate of the masses, and counter-revolutionary to boot. Now, with many Chinese feeling that a moral and ethical center is missing from their increasingly materially comfortable lives, a growing number are seeking meaning in religion and spiritual practice. Host Mary Kay Magistad explores why, in conversation with fellow former China correspondents Ian Johnson, author of "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao," and Jennifer Lin, author of "Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family."
A Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and sex
Muna Assaf used to work in public health. But when she went into Besan 101.9 to pitch a radio show, the owner made her station manager.
Exploring America's towns named Lebanon, one at a time
For Lebanese photographer Fadi BouKaram, visiting all 47 towns and cities in the US named Lebanon is proving to be a challenging, but rewarding task.
White privilege in brown Canada
BuzzFeed writer Scaachi Koul discusses how white privilege affects her family and how racism is institutionalized in Canada.
The French have been desperate for Obama to get involved in their politics. He just did.
President Barack Obama is a superstar in France. French voters even wish he were the one running.
Meet LoweBot, a customer-service robot here to give you 'superpowers'
On the floor of this big-box home improvement store in east San Jose, shoppers can interact with a white plastic pillar that is touchscreen-enabled and speaks directly to users.
Notorious Taliban leader returns to Kabul on May the Fourth
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul Thursday after ending 15 years of rebellion against the Afghan government. He happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Star Wars character Count Dooku, the Sith Lord.
Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump
Immigration detention is big business. Trump will make it even bigger.
The biggest group of current refugees in the US? Christians from Myanmar.
Trump’s anti-refugee push has hidden victims.
Things just got shaky for the last liberal democracy in Central Europe
For the last few years, the Czech Republic has been viewed as the last bastion of liberal democracy in Central Europe. That could soon change.
Trump’s new school lunch plan allows for ‘dangerously high levels of sodium’
On Monday, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it now plans to roll back school lunch standards dealing with sweetened milk, sodium and whole grains, among other things.
This is what a complete lack of freedom looks like
You're kidnapped and put in a room with no windows, no books, no TV, nothing, and you're handcuffed to a radiator. You have no idea if or when you're going to be released. Cartoonist Guy Delisle captures the desperation of this true story.
White nationalism in Sweden has a long history. Now it also has partners in America.
Richard Spencer, the American white nationalist known for getting punched in the face on camera and extolling Donald Trump with a Hitlerian salute, has formed a new publishing venture with Swedish far-right extremists.
Venezuela’s violent protests have claimed 31 lives so far
The opposition accuses elected President Maduro of maneuvering to strengthen his grip on power.
A liberal author tries to cross over an 'empathy wall' in Louisiana
California sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild ventured out of her liberal bubble to try to grasp why some conservatives reject government regulations in Louisiana, even as industry pollution persists, largely unchecked, for years.
How good is the new missile defense system the US just deployed in South Korea?
The US military says its THAAD missile defense system is now operational in South Korea. The hope is that it can shoot down North Korean missiles. But how effective is it?
Afghanistan’s first rock band wants to build a cultural bridge in the US
The singer of Afghanistan’s first rock band, now living in Oakland, California, talks about how music can bring communities together.
What we know so far about the police shooting of Jordan Edwards
On Saturday, a police officer in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, a high school freshman, through the passenger side window of a car. The officers were responding to calls of underage drinking at a house party.
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