Investigative
In parts of rural Nepal women and girls are segregated from their families during menstruation. A look at historical context of this practice and the slow pace of social change.
As Zambians wonder why the fruits of lucrative contracts with the Chinese have not eased high poverty and unemployment levels, Zambia's government takes on Chinese investors with a new law.
New interviews detail horrific atrocities in Congo, where victims and rapists gave firsthand accounts to a British filmmaker.
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Despite our best efforts, is it impossible to force large, open-ocean creatures into extinction? Some scientists seem to think so.
More than one in three people are employed as temporary workers in Japan today. At least 2,700 people with irregular jobs live in internet cafes because they cannot afford to live in an apartment.
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about Tajikistan's pursuit of stability, which lately is taking one step forward, two steps back.
Chronically unstable and corrupt — and now bracing for more chaos from Afghanistan — Tajikistan's president is staking his country's future on the biggest dam in the world.
Nubian Egypt, which stretches about 200 miles from the Sudanese border north to the city of Aswan, still carries with it distinct customs and a language that is slowly becoming extinct.
The 506 homicides that occurred in Chicago in 2012 might be considered a local problem, but it is a global business. One of its key players: the German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch.
Retaliation, revenge, respect: In Chicago there are many reasons to pull the trigger.
Special June issue of Poetry centerpiece of awareness efforts on Afghan women's self-expression through landays: anonymous and spoken, two-line Pashtun poems.
Entire June issue of Poetry is devoted to landays--two-line poems from Afghan Women--and the stories behind them. Journalist/poet Eliza Grizwold photographer Seamus Murphy report.