Projects
Launched April 17, 2019
Ukraine—the home of Europe’s hot war, and the Petri dish where Russian information operations are tested—holds a consequential presidential election in spring 2019.
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Launched April 17, 2019
Tropical forests in Indonesia, Brazil, and Democratic Republic of Congo are under-appreciated superheroes regulating and rescuing the global climate. Here is the story of a few of those trees.
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Launched April 10, 2019
People claim asylum in Europe for a variety of reasons, but there are some who continue to hide from those who migrated alongside them; LGBTQ+ migrants form their own communities in exile across Europe.
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Launched April 10, 2019
Since Sri Lanka's brutal civil war ended, writers are exploring reconciliation through narrative.
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Launched April 8, 2019
More Indians live in rural areas than the entire population of Europe. What does it mean for them if journalism dies a painful death?
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Launched April 4, 2019
In the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sweeping reelection last May, journalist Maddy Crowell looks at the wide-ranging voices of dissent in India – the people and places that are working to defend the image of a pluralistic and tolerant India against the swelling tide of Hindu nationalism... |
Launched April 2, 2019
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has boosted biometric technology testing at the southern border raising fears about possible privacy and civil rights violations.
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Launched March 30, 2019
How a cycle of debt and increased enforcement is leaving a void in some rural Guatemalan schools and villages.
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Launched March 25, 2019
Church parishes throughout Ukraine are voting to no longer recognize Moscow's authority as Russia blames the U.S. for meddling in Orthodox affairs, raising tensions ahead of elections.
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Launched March 25, 2019
Dairy farms—Wisconsin's economic engines—have been decimated in recent years due to decreased demand, lack of workers, and slumping milk prices.
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Launched March 25, 2019
As the U.S. tries to rein the prescription opioid bonanza that launched its epidemic, Big Pharma is expanding around the globe. Their trail includes a bribery scheme, addiction, and an unprepared world.
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Launched March 22, 2019
Patricia Gualinga embodies the resistance of the Sarayaku people, who have kept oil companies out of their ancestral territory.
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Launched March 19, 2019
What happens when a left-leaning Israeli filmmaker settles in a West-Bank settlement?
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Launched March 19, 2019
The Pulitzer Center and the College of William & Mary partner again to provide students with deeper global learning and reporting experiences.
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Launched March 15, 2019
Twenty-five years after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has been labeled a champion for women's rights. What's changed? What work still needs to be done to ensure gender equality in a post-genocide era?
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Launched March 11, 2019
India is addressing deforestation by creating thousands of 'compensatory afforestation' projects. But is this big-ticket scheme a greenwash and a land grab?
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Launched March 5, 2019
In the Caucasus mountains, members of the most scattered people in the world—the Circassians—are starting to come home following a decade of concerted online activism.
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Launched February 28, 2019
For decades, people have migrated from the Mexican state of Guerrero for economic reasons. But now, people are leaving Guerrero not to improve their lives, but to save their lives.
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Launched February 28, 2019
As 88 miles of President Trump’s border wall go up in South Texas, scientists and local residents fear that the unique ecosystems and nature-based economy of the Lower Rio Grande Valley will suffer.
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Launched February 27, 2019
Liberal and conservative justices criticize abuses of civil asset forfeiture. Groups from CATO to the ACLU do too. Republicans and Democrats want change, but much of the reform agenda is unfinished.
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Launched February 27, 2019
A data-driven look at the impact of civil asset forfeiture reform laws throughout the Midwest.
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Launched February 22, 2019
A historic performance of The Box, a piece of transformational theater based on a journalist’s investigation onto solitary confinement, was staged on Alcatraz in June 2019.
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Launched February 22, 2019
The Amazon rainforest is at a tipping point, with wide swaths of the forest being chopped down. As the planet's most important curb against climate change, saving the forest is of global importance.
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Launched February 21, 2019
China has aggressively embraced CRISPR, a powerful new genome editing tool that's transforming the discovery of improved crops and medicines—and raises thorny ethical, regulatory, and legal issues.
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