Carol Hills

Senior Producer and host.

Carol Hills is a senior producer and host for The World. She is also the Global Cartoons editor.

Carol Hills was part of the original team that created and launched "The World" in 1996. Currently, she is a producer, occasional reporter and host who proudly calls herself a generalist. Carol is interested in everything from US policy options in Afghanistan to the rise in pet ownership in the Middle East. She also has an interest in global humor (yes, sometimes it actually does translate) and produces a weekly narrated slideshow of political cartoons from around the globe.

Over the years, Carol has reported from Cuba, Nigeria, and Vietnam. She was a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2001-2002 and has a master's degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Carol got her journalistic start in Boston on "The Ten O’Clock News" with Christopher Lydon.

Carol Hills

Leaked Xinjiang police files are a 'devastating' glimpse of abuses against Uyghur detainees in China, expert says

'The torture of political prisoners is real' in Uganda, says poet and free speech activist

'Once in a lifetime': NASA makes historic trip through the sun's corona, solar physicist explains

Cuban govt supporters resorted to tactics they haven't used in decades to suppress political dissidents, professor says

Professional tree planting: 'It's a combination between industrial labor and high-intensity sport'

A new memoir by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei honors his father's poetry and politics

Nobel Peace Prize is 'a testament to how truth prevails,' Rappler journalist says

A new doc highlights Paulo Freire's early vision of 'education as a tool for transformation' filmmaker says

‘It’s about love’: Kenyan filmmaker says he’ll appeal a government ban on his LGBTQ doc

'Obliged to exile': Cuban activist Tania Bruguera on the plight of artist Hamlet Lavastida

China's Evergrande crisis a ‘whole different situation’ than US’ 2008 housing collapse, analyst says

An Afghan journalist breaks down the sociological makeup of today's Taliban

China’s Xi Jinping Thought curricula teaches students how to ‘unmask enemies’ of the state, author says

US biometric devices are in the hands of the Taliban. They could be used to target Afghans who helped coalition forces.

UNESCO adds an ancient Peruvian solar observatory to its World Heritage Sites