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Jukebox
Music
He’d never seen jukeboxes before. Now he is a master at repairing them.
A group of activists march down a street with a large banner that reads, STAND TOGETHER MONTANA.
Global Politics
Small-town America is arguing over whether to welcome Syria’s refugees or fear them
Maz Jobrani's character Jimmy Vestwood, an Iranian, panics when during a party to celebrate his winning a Green Card Lottery visa to the United State, his American flag is accidentally set on fire from a cigarette butt flicked into his yard by a neighbor.
Culture
Maz Jobrani’s new comedy turns Middle Eastern stereotypes on their heads
In France, leading politician quits post after harassment investigation
Justice
Women in French politics finally speak out about sexual harassment
Suhaib Webb
Culture
Why both ISIS and some US right-wingers are threatening to kill this American imam
France is in the grip of some pretty serious unrest. Workers and anarchists are protesting a new labor law that makes it easier for employers to hire and fire. It’s been going on for two months and some schoolkids now accept unrest and clouds of teargas a
Global Politics
Tear gas becomes the norm for schoolkids in Paris
Nominated translator Deborah Smith (L) and author Han Kang pose with their novel "The Vegetarian", during a media event for the Man Booker International Prize 2016, in London, Britain May 15, 2016.
Books
How a self-taught translator created a literary masterpiece one word at a time
Some 80,000 volunteers went door-to-door to campaign for Francois Hollande in 2008.
Global Politics
Every vote matters. What’s the best way to get them?
Hospital beds lay in the Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on April 26, 2016, about six months after an American airstrike killed dozens of patients, some of whom burned to death in their beds.
Conflict
Probe reveals new details about the US attack on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan