For Americans, corn is a crop that’s fed to livestock, fermented into motor fuel or turned into a cheap sweetener. To millions of Africans, corn, or maize as they know it, is a staple food for people of all economic classes. But African...
“The Economics of Security” explores the threat of extremist violence in South Asia, especially Pakistan, and its possible remedies. Rather than emphasize the military struggle for control of the region, this project examines the...
Across the globe, many young adults and children worry about the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change. They fear that by the time they are middle-aged, the world will be a much warmer, stormier and more uncertain place than it is...
In the remote northern reaches of one of the wealthiest countries of the world is an aboriginal community whose young people are slowly perishing by suicide.
Hopelessness and despair are rampant in the impoverished Inuit territory of...
Six years after oil began to flow on the controversial, World Bank-supported Chad-Cameroon pipeline, many of its opponents’ warnings have come to pass: minimal job creation, growing poverty, increasing civil strife and environmental damage...
Glenna Gordon and Jina Moore look at Liberia's efforts to restore law and justice -- for victims of sexual violence, for communities in conflict and for the nation as a whole. Gordon and Moore travel to Liberia's new Sexual and Gender...
In the U.S., a woman has a 1 in 4,800 chance of dying from complications due to pregnancy or childbirth in her lifetime. In Ethiopia, a woman has a 1 in 27 chance of dying. Hanna shares her...
Kashmir, the ruggedly beautiful mountainous region that lies along the India-Pakistan border, was long known as ‘paradise on earth,’ but in recent decades it has been more like hell thanks to the bloody conflict that has claimed...
Daniel Grossman's reporting was supported by the Kendeda Fund, Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation; Barbara Smith Fund; Whole Systems Foundation; Abby Rockefeller & Lee Halprin...
