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Marc Kilstein

Marc Kilstein really likes to make radio. He's a former producer of the BBC World Service program Boston Calling, and sometime producer for PRI's The World. Before joining The World newsroom, Marc was Associate Producer at the public radio documentary program Humankind. He's also been an Associate Producer at NPR’s On Point and PRI’s The Takeaway. Prior to radio, he wrote and researched for The Nation magazine and reported for Talking Points Memo.Marc studied human rights at Columbia University and war theory at the London School of Economics.
Three sisters form the band The Warning
Culture
A change of scene: 6 stories about life on the move in our weekly reader
Ai Weiwei’s project, titled “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" being installed in Jackson, Wyoming.
Culture
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Mohammad Jibran Nasir is a 28-year-old Pakistani lawyer turned civil rights activist.
Justice
Meet the Pakistani activist fighting the Taliban, igniting Pakistani students abroad
Security personnel stand along Boylston Street near the finish line of the 119th Boston Marathon, held on April 20, 2015.
Justice
The Boston Marathon bombings changed the race — but not necessarily the security conversation
Survivors of Haiti's earthquake play basketball in front of a pile of debris of the justice palace in Port-au-Prince.
Sports
For hard-luck Haiti, a new challenge: Basketball
Peter Pomerantsev
Global Politics
How a Kiev-born TV producer understands Ukrainian identity
France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen speaks to journalists as she leaves after a meeting at the Elyseé palace in Paris on January 9, 2015.
Global Politics
How France’s far-right National Front party is seizing the political moment
Police officers secure access to a residential building during investigations in the eastern French city of Reims on January 8, 2015, after the shooting against the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.
Conflict
How the Kouachi brothers fell through the cracks
A child looks on at a viewing gallery overlooking AirAsia planes on the tarmac at Changi Airport in Singapore December 29, 2014.
Technology
An AirAsia jet carrying 162 people is still missing
Cape Town, South Africa at dusk.
Justice
Gender equality is the next great fight in a post-apartheid South Africa
Residents who were in an Ebola quarantine area complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials, in West Point, Monrovia, on August 23, 2014.
Health
It’s not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines
Volunteers put on protective suits during an Ebola training session held by Germany's Red Cross in Würzburg, on October 21, 2014
Health
How a wedding gown designer is taking on hazmat suits
Zambian women sing at Lusaka's international airport in 2008.
Development
Happy 50th birthday, Zambia!
A health worker is reflected in a mirror as he prepares protective equipment in Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown. Cuba has dispatched 165 health workers to the country to combat the Ebola outbreak.
Health
How Cuba is leading the international fight against Ebola
Li Na of China serves to Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic during their women's singles match at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 17, 2014.
Sports
Chinese tennis star Li Na is calling it a career
Health workers wearing protective clothing disinfect themselves after an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms was found at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 17, 2014.
Health
This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak
Militant Islamist fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014.
Conflict
Meet the young women of ISIS — on the social web
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sleep on the ground at the Bajed Kadal refugee camp in southwest Dohuk province on August 23, 2014.
Conflict
A former UN relief coordinator says Iraqi and Syrian refugees pose the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation
Protesters attend a rally in support of Ukraine, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on August 29, 2014.
Conflict
Ukraine seeks NATO membership as Russia moves troops across the border
American journalist Peter Theo Curtis is shown in this undated still frame taken from video courtesy of Al Jazeera on August 24, 2014.
Media
A ‘fearless’ American writer is freed from captivity in Syria
Soldiers check people traveling in Bomi County, in the northwestern portion of Liberia, on August 11, 2014.
Health
Fear in Liberia turns violent as a mob attacks an Ebola clinic
Conflict
How artists and sculptors healed maimed soldiers during World War I
Aurora Zucco de Bellocchio, a member of human rights organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo), sits behind a pram with a picture of her daughter Irene Bellocchio and her partner Rolando Pisoni, who both disappeared in 1977, during t
Science
How an American scientist helps grandmothers in Argentina find their ‘stolen’ grandchildren
Supporters of the anti-gay law preparing for a procession in Uganda's capital, Kampala, in March 2014.
Lifestyle
Uganda’s controversial anti-gay law is finally gone — at least for now
A Ukrainian soldier stands near a destroyed military vehicle of pro-Russian separatists just outside the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, July 7, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Conflict & Justice
Ukraine’s military is making a comeback against pro-Russian separatists in the east