How India manages the extreme weather events that are becoming more common with climate change can be a lesson for the world. Rescuers on their second day of mission following Tuesday’s landslides wait to cross a river at Chooralmala, Wayanad district, Kerala state,...
The United States prides itself on being a government of the people. But the nation that invented modern democracy is no longer the model for it. Eligible voters form a long line to get on a bus bound for their vote-registered domicile for the 2024 Taiwanese...
With temperature inversion and climate change, the joyful meaning of a festival dissipates in the air we can’t breathe. Fireworks during a Diwali celebration. (Credit: Getty Images) This article, by high school student Anoushka Arbhi was produced out of News...
Playing on a different team in a different country is disorienting. But on the field the only question is this: Can you play? Two images of the author playing soccer during her first year of high school. (Photos courtesy of Helen Milito) This article, by high school...
For a democracy to last, its leaders must willingly step down and the transition from one to the next must be smooth and bloodless. Then-President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump during the presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be buried today. Our correspondent remembers meeting the man who put personal integrity over politics and profits. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in Wiesbaden, Germany 21 January 1981, greeting the U.S. hostages released...
An endless civil war in Sudan has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. But the world’s attention lies elsewhere. Sudanese refugees displaced by the conflict in Sudan gather to receive food staples from aid agencies at the Metche Camp in eastern...
In studying in France I learned something I didn’t expect. Back home we all rush around so much we miss what’s most important: The life around us. The hands of the author’s host sister at the piano keyboard. (Photo by Amanda Dominique-Santos) This...
The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has given hope to millions of Syrian refugees who fled their country during its 13-year civil war. We look back at the start and evolution of the conflict. Syrians wait to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Cilvegözü border...
It wasn’t too long ago that a woman wouldn’t dine alone in the United States. Two women decided to change that by opening their own restaurant. A notice once on the wall of Bread and Roses now housed at the The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on...