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Jared Goyette

Jared Goyette is writer and editor who lives in downtown Minneapolis. Originally from Philadelphia, he has lived and traveled throughout Latin America and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. 
Maddie on left leans on Wilmot
Global Politics
The new mayor of Helena, Montana, has made history — and now just wants to get to work
Don Damond speaks to the media about his fiancée Justine Damond
Conflict
Foreign coverage of the shooting of Justine Damond is giving Americans new perspective
Man walks in front of rows of people in suits
Science
Why this Nobel laureate thinks Trump’s science policy will help make China great
Man sits in polling place with binder
Election 2016
Global observers are watching the US elections — literally, at polling places
Woman with tool in front of damaged building
Development
Nepali immigrants who came to the US after the 2015 earthquake can stay a little longer
Former MLB player Curt Schilling, pictured here in 2011, should listen to America Abraod to develop a better understanding of the shifting attitudes of American Jews.
Global Politics
Hey Curt Schilling! American Jews say there are multiple ways to be pro-Israel.
Man with champagne clinks glasses with three other men
Education
One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is ‘totally speechless’ over the push to limit immigration
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets U. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Global Politics
Why Russians like Trump, but Putin may actually prefer Clinton
Three men sit in rubble in white helmets
Conflict
How to help: Some of the groups that worked to save Omran Daqneesh — and countless others — in Syria
Family walks through airport, man in front hold infant
Conflict
It’s now clear that most of the Syrian refugees coming to the United States are women and children
Here’s an easy way to share your Thanksgiving meal with Syrian refugees
A Belgian soldier
Conflict
After terror attacks, push for better, more centralized intelligence agencies in Europe
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helps to carry a coffin with a victim of a thwarted coup following a funeral service in Istanbul, Turkey, July 17, 2016.
Conflict
Turkey’s crackdown: How far will it go?
Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings in the FX show "The Americans."
Global Politics
At the center of most spy scandals, you can usually find one of these four factors
Nepali immigrants registerf or TPS at a clinic at highschool in Queens organized by Adhikaar last March.
Global Politics
With earthquake recovery back home stalled, Nepalis push for renewed protections in the US
Wilmot Collins gestures across table to a woman who he is speaking with
Culture
His message to new refugees in Montana: ‘You have to have thick skin’
A group of activists march down a street with a large banner that reads, STAND TOGETHER MONTANA.
Global Politics
Small-town America is arguing over whether to welcome Syria’s refugees or fear them
Performers Ali Kidder-Mostrom (L) and David Coupe perform a fight scene as a translation of their dialogue is projected on a screen during a performance of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" in Chicago, December 20, 2012
Culture
Why a lawyer wrote a legal brief partially in Klingon
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback
Global Politics
Why it matters that the Kansas governor stopped resettling refugees
Two workers holding a white body body bag as they place it in the back of a truck
Justice
Óscar Martínez on why El Salvador is a ‘good place to kill’
Anas Francis is reunited with his cousin Syrian refugee Laila Beylouneh, 13, at the Welcome Centre in Montreal, Quebec, December 12, 2015.
Global Politics
Canada is just better at welcoming Syrian refugees, but the US is trying to do more
Ann Corcoran speaks in the YouTube video she recorded for The Center for Security Policy, a controveral far right think tank founded by Frank Gaffney.
Conflict
How an environmental lobbyist became an influential anti-refugee blogger
Ted Cruz gestures at Donald Trump from behind debate podiums
Global Politics
Trump reminds her of what her parents fled in Poland — so she’s supporting Ted Cruz
A railroad track in Moscow, Arkansas.
Culture
There are more than 20 towns in America called Moscow. Why is that?
David Wright talks to the media in Richardso, Texas in December of 2015.
Global Politics
To this shotgun-carrying mosque protester, Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric has gone too far
A boy asks a question during PRI's forum on the refugee crisis at Macalester College on Oct. 29.
Youth use their voices and perspective to bring attention to the migrant crisis
A billboard in Waite Park, Minnesota, near St. Cloud. The owner agreed to take it down because Catholic Charities does not resettle refuguees in the area.
Global Politics
As debate over refugee resettlement stirs, agencies see more volunteers — and protests
Lousiana native Sam Craft taks to Wikitongues about his identity as a young Louisiana French speaker.
Culture
This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world’s languages
Refugees and migrants jump off a boat as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, November 26, 2015.
Culture
A historically xenophobic metaphor has been used by Trump, Limbaugh, Obama —and us?
Tugba Sunguroglu, Ilayda Akdogan, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Elit Iscan, and Gunes Sensoy in Mustang.
Arts
Virginity tests and an Oscar nomination: The rise of ‘Mustang’
A class at a women's center in Ghouta.
Conflict
It’s important to listen to Syrian women, and here is one way you can help
Two participants in the research project to document Philadelphia's ASL dialect.
Culture
A researcher is trying to document Philadelphia’s ASL accent, before it disappears
An internally displaced girl poses at a makeshift refugee camp in Sinjar town, in Idlib province, Syria November 20, 2015.
Technology
Here’s one easy way to share your Thanksgiving meal with Syrian refugees
Conflict
Her Syrian cousin died on a migrant ship. This is the poem she wrote for him and other refugees
Mohamad Al Bardan
Conflict
This Syrian activist feels like US politicians want to punish him for surviving terrorism and repression
Men in black uniforms facing each other doing dance
Culture
New Zealand rugby team’s haka dance isn’t just about intimidation
Justice
How a trip to the heart of the Syrian civil war inspired a young American to become a law student
Syrian children play during a Questscope informal education class in Damascus.
Conflict
How a relief worker in the world’s worst war zone finds hope
Global Politics
Salman Rushdie: We must look at the root causes of the refugee crisis
Children enjoying HAR facilities on Umuganda
Global Politics
As US marks 9/11 with national service, here’s how other countries do national service
A woman holds a Guatemalan flag and celebrates as Guatemala's former President Otto Perez arrives at Matamoros Army Base, after a hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice, in Guatemala City, September 3, 2015.
Global Politics
Guatemala wakes up to a president gone, but it still has much to protest
A Syrian refugee from Aleppo holds his one month old daughter moments after arriving on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos
Global Politics
How to help Syrian refugees? These groups you may not know are doing important work
Boys carry their belongings as they cross the Tachira river border into Colombia from Venezuela, near Colombia's Villa del Rosario village, August 27, 2015.
Conflict
Memo to Trump: This is what mass deportation looks like
People shop in a store in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 3, 2015.
Economics
Everything Must Go: Puerto Rico doesn’t just have a debt crisis
A Turkish national flag with the word 'offline' projected on it, is seen through a Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014.
Media
Why Turkey’s brief ban of Twitter was dumb and futile
Hatice Ezgi Sadet
Conflict
The 20-year-old activist who died trying to help rebuild a city
Angela Merkel and a young refugee named Reem
Global Politics
Update: Germany to allow teen facing deportation to stay
An image widely circled on the #TsiprasLeaveEUSummit hashtag
Global Politics
The Greeks may not have fared well in the negotiations, but at least they won on Twitter
Ethiopia's Prime Minsiter Hailemariam Desalegn arrives at the presidential airport in Abuja, Nigeria May 28, 2015. What's he up to?
Media
On the eve of Obama’s visit, Ethiopia releases six writers held on ‘terrorism’ charges
Members of the Zone 9 blogging collective in December, 2012
Technology
For this group of Ethiopian journalists, the Hacking Team revelations are personal
Bree Newsome as Wonder Woman by Artist Rebecca Cohen
Culture
Artists explain why Bree Newsome became an Internet superhero after taking down SC’s Confederate flag
Riot police use a water cannon to disperse LGBT rights activist before a Gay Pride Parade in central Istanbul, Turkey, June 28, 2015.
Justice
Turkish LGBT activists remain defiant after police crackdown on pride rally
Thousands of Armenians staged a second day of protests on Tuesday in the capital Yerevan against a hike in electricity prices, defying police who used water cannon to try to disperse them.
Global Politics
The youth protests that have shaken Armenia were years in the making
Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Culture
Creating ‘magnetic poetry’ using Harvard Sentences might just be the most geeky thing you do today
The Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Culture
Boston’s Gay Men’s Chorus’ finds pride and prejudice in Turkey
Actress Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in "Orange is the New Black."
Culture
‘Orange is the New Black’ said we did a story on the Korean word ‘kibun,’ so now we did
10danSonra
Global Politics
Meet the young activists who upended Turkish politics and want a new model for the Middle East
Labourers work at a construction site in Doha June 18, 2012.
Sports
Qatar’s migrant workers are abused — but the country’s leaders may use unfair media criticism to deflect efforts to help them
After almost four hours of protest on May 13, students sit down while they await to hear the results of the conversation between student representatives and government officials.
Global Politics
For student protesters, a rare, decisive — and little-noticed — victory
hand phone illustration by Leslie Agan
Culture
If you’re placing a phone call to North Korea, it may be answered on a ‘hand phone’