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Young boy holds Tibet flag at independence protest.
Education
Policy or discrimination? UMass Amherst student prevented from carrying Tibetan flag at graduation.
A wood thrush, photographed in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Environment
Planting trees in DC to help save Caribbean songbirds
U.S. President Barack Obama greets an adoring crowd in Cannes, France on November 4, 2011.
Global Politics
The French have been desperate for Obama to get involved in their politics. He just did.
image of prisoner separated from wife
Justice
A Palestinian cartoonist draws the Israeli occupation
A couple of the new friends Fadi BouKaram made on his US road trip to visit all the towns and cities named Lebanon.
Culture
Exploring America’s towns named Lebanon, one at a time
Alexey Petrov at the March protest in Irkutsk. The scene reminded him of his own generation 20 yrs ago — before Russians his age became jaded about politics.
Global Politics
Young Russia, adrift from the Kremlin, stands up to Putin
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar speaks during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan May 4th, 2017
Conflict
Notorious Afghan warlord returns to Kabul on May the Fourth
President Donald Trump speaks at a Women's Empowerment Panel at the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 29, 2017.
Conflict
How Trump’s latest budget impacts women and girls, from classrooms to cops
Author Scaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and is a culture writer at BuzzFeed.
Culture
White privilege in brown Canada