Marc Kilstein

Marc Kilstein is a former producer of the BBC World Service program Boston Calling, an offshoot of PRI's The World.

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

A change of scene: 6 stories about life on the move in our weekly reader

Culture

One week, one theme: A gay men’s chorus tried to join a Pride march in Istanbul. Halal BBQ explodes in Houston. Heavy-metal teen sisters move Metallica northward from Monterrey. These stories from PRI’s The World show a world on the move.

Ai Weiwei’s project, titled “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" being installed in Jackson, Wyoming.

Last steps, first steps, a breakaway bride-to-be and Ai Weiwei’s zodiac heads: Weekend reads

Culture
Mohammad Jibran Nasir is a 28-year-old Pakistani lawyer turned civil rights activist.

Meet the Pakistani activist fighting the Taliban, igniting Pakistani students abroad

Justice
Security personnel stand along Boylston Street near the finish line of the 119th Boston Marathon, held on April 20, 2015.

The Boston Marathon bombings changed the race — but not necessarily the security conversation

Justice
Survivors of Haiti's earthquake play basketball in front of a pile of debris of the justice palace in Port-au-Prince.

For hard-luck Haiti, a new challenge: Basketball

Sports
Peter Pomerantsev

How a Kiev-born TV producer understands Ukrainian identity

Global Politics

Peter Pomerantsev was born in Kiev to Russian émigré parents. And though he long thought of himself as a Russian, the conflict in Ukraine has forced him to reconsider his own 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.

How France’s far-right National Front party is seizing the political moment

Global Politics

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Marine Le Pen and France’s radical-right are tapping into anti-Muslim sentiment. And the French public is listening. Have we reached “Le Pen’s 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.

How the Kouachi brothers fell through the cracks

Conflict

Both French and American authorities are facing serious questions over the failure to prevent this week’s Paris siege. The answers may be matters of intelligence and diplomacy — but they could also come down to simple matters of time and money.

A child looks on at a viewing gallery overlooking AirAsia planes on the tarmac at Changi Airport in Singapore December 29, 2014.

An AirAsia jet carrying 162 people is still missing

Technology

As authorities continue to search for a missing AirAsia flight bound for Singapore, fears are growing that the aircraft is “at the bottom of the sea.” Meanwhile, AirAsia’s flamboyant chief executive, Tony Fernandes, has been thrust into the international spotlight as his company confronts its first major crisis.

Cape Town, South Africa at dusk.

Gender equality is the next great fight in a post-apartheid South Africa

Justice

In a post-apartheid South Africa, gender inequality is rampant. But women and girls across the country are mounting a fierce fight for their rights.