Ben Mirin beatboxes with bird calls

How German ‘wood detectives’ protect endangered species

Harry Truman’s grandson impersonates the former president and considers the age of Trump

The grandson of a man who bombed Hiroshima celebrates an anti-nuclear Nobel Peace Prize

How a family is transforming its cranberry bog from environmental liability to climate change buffer

Merkel’s party wants to deport migrants to Afghanistan, but this refugee says it’s unsafe

Can a nuclear explosion be peaceful? US scientists used to think so.

Drawing comics of Nazis taught this US author what fascism really looks like

Kevin Kwan’s new novel satirizes the richest of the rich in Asia

An immigrant was shot in Oklahoma. His family wants justice.

When Soviet science faltered, the US stepped forward. Now it’s France’s turn.

How a Muslim community in Missouri rose from the ashes of an arson attack

St. Louis repaired its historic Jewish cemetery. But the city is still looking for answers.

Rising seas are washing away graves in the Marshall Islands

The proud Pacific nation that preserves its homeland with the Bikini Anthem

His grandfather helped bomb Hiroshima. Today, he’s friends with a nuclear bomb survivor.

Asked — again — about anti-Semitism, Trump condemns it as ‘horrible’

Can science fiction help prevent a nuclear war?

A glimpse inside a defunct East German nuclear plant — and what it says about the future of energy in Europe

What the former secretary of energy thinks about Iran, climate change and nuclear security

How Iranian scientists at one Harvard lab are reacting to Trump’s immigration restrictions

Germany has a soccer team made up entirely of writers

Trump has the nuclear codes. Here’s why that might not change much.

A father remembers when Korea was one country. His son dreams of seeing the same someday.

Will a new nuclear arms race undo decades of teamwork between the US and Russia?

Recycling sewage into drinking water is no big deal. They’ve been doing it in Namibia for 50 years.

America’s missileers stand ready to launch nuclear weapons — and pray they won’t have to

The story of the online, pan-African Magunga Bookstore

How the Swahili language took hold across Africa, and beyond

Trump’s win: The view from Berlin

How should South Africa remember the ‘Architect of Apartheid’?

South African women share their experiences with racism at schools

What a solar eclipse and laser physics could teach us about malaria-carrying mosquitoes

Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum isn’t about death. It’s about Jewish religious life.

Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum isn’t about death. It’s about Jewish religious life.

9 of the best nonfiction comics from around the world

Witness: ‘I could see people lying on the ground’

What America’s 2016 vote has in common with the end of Yugoslavia

Trump’s comments leave some European leaders worried about the future of NATO

She earned fame as an Olympic runner, but died as a refugee. A new comic honors her.

From China to high school in small-town America

Hitler’s a bestselling author in Germany again. Why?

Why my immigrant mother won’t be voting in the California primary

How ISIS recruits online — using encryption, chat rooms and even dating sites

How Persian shadow theater is bringing an Iranian epic to life

Ken Liu’s fiction draws on Chinese radio, Greek myths and American sci-fi

One year after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, much of the country is still in ruins

A new documentary shows the surprising, circular journey of Japanese Brazilians

Inspired by US activists, Poland moves toward Europe’s most restrictive abortion law

This isn’t the first time the US and Russia have come together on Syria

How the thaw in US-Cuba relations reunited a journalist’s family

Apple’s scuffle with the FBI could affect privacy and freedom of speech worldwide

For one Namibian activist, the fight against apartheid was personal

Danes helped him escape the Holocaust. Today, he says Denmark should do more for refugees.

In their latest debate, Republicans spar over refugees and undocumented immigrants

As a kid, he fled Nazi Germany. As an adult, he found Hitler’s forgotten second book.

Why tech-savvy Indians are mad at Mark Zuckerberg

A scrap of paper leads a sailor to his wife

America was just as reluctant to shelter Jewish refugees

Germany’s track record taking in outsiders makes its refugee policy even more inspiring