In Norway’s far north, members of Europe’s last intact nomadic culture struggle to adjust as development and climate change reshape the landscape and their future.
How fenceline communities are gathering clues to help them combat environmental pollution.
On Music: Hitching a Ride with the Guatemalan Chicken Bus Gypsy Caravan.
For months, refugees caught in a "humanitarian logjam" near the Greek/Macedonian border lived in a makeshift tent city—until Greek officials cleared the area, replacing the fact of the camp with yet another layer of uncertainty.
Even as Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka gets back to normalcy after a deadly siege a month ago, Bangladesh wrestles with the rising specter of extremism.
The most important US air force base you’ve never heard of.
How Kurdish rights continue to flounder under an authoritarian Turkey and an imploding Syria.
Pieter Hugo's latest portrait series examines the quiet afterlives of apartheid and genocide.
How the military, adobe houses, and finger-sized solar panels can pave the way to a more democratic distribution of energy.
What does a neglected disease tell us about who we choose to take care of and why?
The water crisis in the West has renewed debate about the effectiveness of major dams, with some pushing for the enormous Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to be decommissioned.
The unlikely bond between a hospice volunteer and a dying Vietnam veteran.
The breakthrough addiction medication and the doctors who risk everything to prescribe it.
Future of Language: Scientists are experimenting with ways for people to communicate using only their minds. But at what cost?
A report from the field in Iowa, where Trump gear is selling like hotcakes
Block by block she maneuvers through the teeming sidewalks of Kabul’s Shar-E-Naw shopping district until she enters Ice-Milk Restaurant, stops at tables.
Boundaries of Taste: Chased from his native India, Sanal Edamaruku contemplates the power of offense and accustoms himself to his new homeland.
Kashmir’s most infamous “fake encounter” leaves five families desperate for justice.
Since changes to US immigration law in the ’90s, many veterans are being deported.
Four years after its revolution, what has changed for Tunisia, and for the rest of the world?
For the past six years, Karen has lived in Missouri with her adoptive parents. But a Guatemalan couple are convinced the child is their kidnapped daughter, Anyelí.
At the top of the pantheon of spirits in Burma are the Thirty-Seven Nats. Twirling on earth, in a shimmering shawl, is their 74-year-old medium, U Nan Win.
In the South’s bloodiest prisons, Baptists say they can reform prisoners by turning them into missionaries.
Home from the oil wars abroad, US service members and military contractors are flocking to North Dakota’s emerging boomtowns.
When the religious right co-opts the push to reinvigorate civics education, dubious legislation reveals the most powerful people in public schools.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgians turned en masse to religion. Today, the Orthodox Church’s conservative beliefs are clashing with the country’s increasingly close ties to the EU.
The books behind the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand---and the men who read them.
The changing nature of authorship in the age of mass media as illustrated by the MSNBC host.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author looks inside 1979’s subterfuge and the lead-up to the Iran-Contra scandal.
How much more must Syrians pay for their uprising against the Assad government?
