Austin Federa

Austin Federa worked for PRI in 2016.


The Eiffel Tower is seen with the black, yellow and red colors of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims of Tuesday's Brussels bomb attacks, in Paris, France, March 22, 2016.

Thoughts of Brussels — from across the world

Conflict

As the details of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels continue to come in, people across the world are showing their somber support for the city.

Aboriginal women from the remote Central Australian community of Ampilatwatja performing at a public ceremony in 2010 to protest against the Northern Territory intervention.

The opaque standards of Facebook

Justice
A Griffon Vulture is seen at the veterinary clinic at the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo, near Tel Aviv January 29, 2016. The vulture from an Israeli nature reserve with an Israeli identification ring and location transmitter was captured by residents of the south

Are these animals spies? This one was behind bars.

Conflict
Actor Benicio Del Toro arrives for the UK premiere of "Sicario" at Leicester Square in London

Why #OscarsSoWhite isn’t very Latino

Culture
Soldier closes gate as military tribunals continue At Guantanamo Bay.

What do we actually know about the Gitmo detainees?

Conflict
Kim Jong-Un after supposedly scaling the 9,000ft Mount Paektu one morning.

H-bomb this: Six other things North Korea has lied about

Global Politics

Here’s a list of times North Korea has completely made stuff up — so take their H-bomb claims with a pound of salt.

Iranian journalists taking selfies with a smartphone

After six years in prison, an Iranian blogger sees a very different Internet

Culture

Hossein Derakhshan didn’t expect to find himself in an Iranian prison, but that’s where he spent from late 2008 to November 2014. He was sentenced to 20 years for political writing, as well as traveling to Israel, a ‘hostile state’ under Iranian law. Six years later, he’s reemerged into a very different world.

Haines, AK, in December

What writing obituaries taught them about life

Culture

Their work sheds light on what’s important. “If people weren’t really sad when you left,” says one, “it seemed like you’ve missed an opportunity … I think about that a lot in how I live. I think, ‘Am I generous, Am I kind? Am I grateful?'”

Heart Mountain War Relocation Center

How two lives came together at a Japanese American internment camp

Conflict

As a child, the prospect of an overnight journey by train sounded exciting, but the reality of the situation soon sunk in — Norman had become one of the nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry interned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.