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Two years later, Eastern Kentucky and Western participants assess changes as they gather to reach across the political and cultural chasm.
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Two years later, Eastern Kentucky and Western participants assess changes as they gather to reach across the political and cultural chasm.
Planned barriers along the Rio Grande could trap debris and send floodwaters into nearby communities.
Poland’s governing party, which just won another election, has married right-wing social policy with left-wing economic policy.
Tokyoites and foreigners marched through busy Tokyo streets on September 20, 2019, as part of the Global Climate Strike.
Government use of facial recognition technology is already a daily reality at this Arizona border crossing.
Hong Kong residents protested for months this year against an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China.
Pulitzer Center grantee Nick Schifrin appeared on NPR's 1a to talk about his project, "China: Power and Prosperity."
Camila DeChalus talked about her recent piece on what’s happening to asylum-seekers when they reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
The impact of globalization and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challenging how we think about the social contract.
Chinese 5G technology is designed to transmit huge amounts of data instantly, and deploy vast networks of surveillance cameras and facial recognition software. While dozens of countries around the world plan to adopt the innovation, human rights advocates and the U.S. are sounding the alarm. Nick Schifrin reports as part of "China: Power and Prosperity," with support from the Pulitzer Center.
Technology is transforming China, helping improve life in some ways, but also collecting big data. The government is beginning to convert that data and surveillance footage into social credit scores, which critics say can be used to penalize those who criticize the Communist Party. Nick Schifrin reports as part of "China: Power and Prosperity," with support from the Pulitzer Center.
An unlikely team in Congress is trying to pass legislation requiring public disclosure of financial records showing how about $900 million paid by farmers into nearly two dozen mandatory checkoff programs is spent.
The Black Sea region has become the focus of heated geopolitical contention, but local environmental issues remain underreported and poorly understood.
Russia's military annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine has already upended many lives. LGBT people and drug users are among those most at risk.
In the Indian border state of Sikkim, indigenous Himalayan communities charted for hydroelectric dam construction fight to protect their sacred rivers.
Less than three years after independence, South Sudan collapsed into civil war. Thousands have died and famine looms on the horizon. Can rebel-leaders-turned-politicians lead the way to peace?
In South Africa's poorest mining communities, fury at the political class is mounting.
A revolution is awakening in Cambodia—with protests led by a monk who is speaking out against the environmental destruction of his country.
How do you turn the lights off on a war? Wars end when troops come home, but what happens to all the stuff?
Thailand is the land of smiles, free elections, and military coups. Why have its efforts at electoral democracy always failed, and can they ever succeed?
Mumbai’s influential Zoroastrian community faces extinction even as its conservative and reform-minded factions debate who counts as a legitimate member of the 3,000 year-old faith.
The rate of population growth exceeds economic growth in Niger where women have an average of seven children. Government officials hope family planning will become the best way forward.
China confronts a hidden but grave environmental threat—soil pollution related to industrial development that affects as much as one fifth of China's farmland.
There’s a growing push in Europe to criminalize the buying but not the selling of sex. Advocates say such laws curb trafficking. Opponents say they hurt prostitutes. Who's right?
The White House has softened its protocol regarding families' private payments to hostage takers. Might the policy actually change terrorist behavior?
Students journey across the globe to report on issues that matter—from migration to global health and indigenous land rights.
What does the Clinton family's influence in Haiti mean for the present state of Haiti and the future foreign policy of another Clinton administration?
Daniella Zalcman is one of the winners in an emerging photographers competition.
Pulitzer Center grantee among three journalists speaking about free press with President Obama on World Press Freedom Day, 2015.
Determining who owns what in Haiti is a major headache.
What is at stake in the fight over the Mumbai waterfront?
What gave rise to Mexico's culture of extreme violence?
Photojournalist takes first place for issue reporting from White House News Photographers Association and second prize from World Press Photo.
Photographer Yana Paskova finds that for Bulgaria, democracy doesn't necessarily mean prosperity.
Journalist goes to cover military efforts in Liberia, finds hope instead.
Pulitzer Center grantee Callum Macrae in the Colombo Mirror discussing the need for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka.