Politics
As drilling operators search for shale gas in Poland, residents demand more information about the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing—fracking—on their communities.
There’s much to be learned about what drove the alleged bombers at the Boston Marathon. One place to start: the contested histories and unresolved tensions in their native North Caucasus.
A $429 million dam shows how South Korea deals with doomsday threats from the North.
In northern Mali, far from Western eyes, a powerful Al Qaeda affiliate has managed to carve out what is effectively a new country. What they do with it will determine the future of the war on terror.
We were halfway to Timbuktu when we heard the pop. It was just after 3:45 p.m., and we’d been bouncing along the unpaved, deeply-rutted dirt road which leads to Timbuktu for nearly eight hours.
Behind the grandeur of the Vatican lies a darker story. Cardinals and bishops, mostly American, are accusing American nuns of “radical feminism.” Jason Berry reports from the Vatican.
As the cost of maintaining churches escalates, “people must make adjustments in their thinking,” says a Vatican archbishop. But a nun serving as a waitress?
Most American farming relies on gas and fertilizers and yields low wages. Cuba's Organoponico Vivero Alamar, though, relies on nature and ingenuity. And it pays (relatively) well.
Today is International Women’s Day and the plight of women and children in crisis is a recurring theme in much of the reporting that the Pulitzer Center supports.
Jason Berry on how to navigate the tricky currents of the Vatican.
Mother Tekla Famiglietti, head of the Bridgettine Order, runs a small empire of hotels, restaurants, and guesthouses around the world. She has left a distinctive imprint at the Vatican.
Like many poor countries, Cambodia is being hit by hypertension and diabetes epidemics. Most charities focus on infectious diseases. Can anything stop these chronic conditions from killing millions?
Days after the Delhi gang-rape victim died, a 9-year-old in Pakistan was beaten and raped by three men. In Pakistan, however, no one is talking about it.