Cuba runs out of oil

Glitter makes Rio sparkle at Carnival. It also pollutes the environment.

Here’s what to know about the new COVID variant ‘razor blade throat’

A new wave of Kurds fleeing Turkey bring their own sound to Nashville’s Music City

Haiti’s new leaders vow to take on gangs

What a female president could mean for Mexico

Jewish American delis: A story of culture, community and survival

Sudanese American rapper Oddisee on overcoming cultural taboos and confronting self-doubt

As Earth surpasses 8 billion people, ‘the planet can feed and sustain billions more,’ demographer says

As euro slides in value, US likely to ‘import more, export less,’ economist explains

How Columbus Day contributes to the cultural erasure of Italian Americans

Behind in polls, Bolsonaro bolsters his base with far-right rhetoric from the US

The post-9/11 generation ‘came to understand the limits of what America could accomplish,’ former Obama adviser says

Ford hits a ‘home run’ with its new all-electric F-150 pickup

Germany plans to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Will other countries follow suit?

American ginseng farmers battered by trade wars and pandemic

Israel has a stake in Biden administration’s decision to lift ICC sanctions

Dr. Atul Gawande: Pandemic led to a ‘rethink on what matters’

Joe Biden has called for unity. The African concept of Ubuntu offers a path.

Biden tackles the coronavirus; Twin suicide bombings in Baghdad; Migrant shipwreck off Libyan coast

A post-America world: Biden’s challenges begin at home, former diplomat Richard Haass says

US House forges ahead with Trump impeachment; Ireland’s COVID-19 rates skyrocket; Italian ‘Nndrangheta mobsters on trial

‘The death of American exceptionalism’: Views from abroad on US Capitol attack 

Recipe: Victorian Christmas pudding perfect for first-time cooks

Lead in hunted meat poses health risk to families and food banks

How political cartoonists worldwide see a ‘fractured states of America’

The world is watching: Global leaders react to US election

London composers inspired by BLM confront classical music’s inequities through sound

Legislating peace and security: Part II

Green groups grapple with a history of racism and exclusion

Will Voice of America’s new Trump pick protect the agency’s independence?

Gary Younge on Europe and the US: There is no ‘better’ form of racism

Symbols of ‘racist past’ topple amid global BLM protests; New Zealand reports no active COVID-19 cases

Was the US sleeping through China’s rise?

Big cat ownership in the US is a big problem

‘We can’t take our health for granted’ as US reopens, says Dr. Howard Koh

Pandemic exposes ‘major vulnerabilities’ in the American food system, says author Michael Pollan

Mexico faces US pressure to reopen American factories amid coronavirus

The economics of a global emergency

At Munich Security Conference, is the West ‘winning’ or growing evermore ‘Westless’?

US immigration politics make their mark on Grammy-nominated J.S. Ondara

The power of conservative talk radio

Air pollution is a silent killer, even when it meets EPA standards

Early childhood education is critical, but limited. In Oregon, immigrant teachers could be the solution.

Veterans worry about justice in the military after Trump backs Navy SEAL

Will the Chinese American sport ‘9-man’ have to change its strict heritage rules?

Navy SEAL saga ‘cuts to the core’ of trust in the military, says Army combat veteran

How Turkey’s Erdoğan went from populist hero to strongman

California is living America’s dystopian future

Trump’s America shines bright for Europe’s radical New Right

Could President Trump be impeached and convicted — but also reelected?

Why did Trump withhold military aid from Ukraine?

Remembering how America experienced 9/11

Opponents of FDR’s New Deal called it a ‘disaster’

Campus housing takes on new meaning as US considers more caps on refugee resettlement

Public charge rule has history of ‘racial exclusion,’ says immigration historian

Megachurches, home churches, podcasts: American evangelicals are ‘not a monolith’

Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart

Iconic musician Carlos Santana creates ‘mystical medicine music to heal a twisted, crooked world’

Is Canada’s health care system a cure-all?