How do you explain immigration law to a fifth-grader?

Muslims revere Jesus too, but this Turkish author sees the Islamic Jesus in a new light

Why some people seeking asylum in the US are afraid of going to court

The World’s music features this month: G-Dragon, Dat Garcia, and Brownout

Intimidation, Twitter trolls, and finally this New York Times correspondent was kicked out of Venezuela

What’s the word of the week around the globe?

Young, undocumented and trying to ‘keep my sanity’

How do you judge a child soldier?

Pakistan’s traditional third gender isn’t happy with the trans movement

A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’

About McCain’s ‘beacon of liberty’ vision of America

Dick Van Dyke apologizes for his ‘atrocious’ cockney accent in ‘Mary Poppins’

Cartoonist freed but other journalists still held in Turkey’s controversial media trial

What to do with captured women and children of ISIS?

Here’s an idea for engaging with North Korea. Bring in a Western rock band and make a movie about it.

Across Women’s Lives is hitting the road, and we need your help

Trump bans transgender personnel from serving in the military

Ahead of his Senate testimony, hedge fund manager Browder dishes about the Russia investigation

England’s new psychedelic renaissance

Love, quantum physics and ‘entanglement’

Many in Melania Trump’s native Slovenia wonder why their country goes unmentioned

Unpaid doctors and nurses fight largest cholera epidemic on record

Social workers and lawyers say deportation raids targeting teen gang members are misguided

For the Haudenosaunee women’s national team, ‘lacrosse is life’

Clearing mines and explosives in Mosul

Bokanté serves up songs in the key of Creole

Looking back at ‘The Summer of Love’

Foreign coverage of the shooting of Justine Damond is giving Americans new perspective

The courts called him a terrorist, but one judge and several politicians want him to be able to stay in the US

Closing the State Department’s war crimes office could send the wrong message

A super-simple strategy may be key to fighting climate change

‘Why are Americans so fat?’ And other questions Russians have about us.

This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.

Women and girls are a new frontier in the fight against HIV

This Canadian oil pipeline could cause the next great controversy

Poland steps away from democracy and EU in latest judiciary reforms

Syrian rebels say they feel ‘betrayed’ by the US ending its aid

The radicalization of a surfer dude

From gutting sardines to shipping pregnant cows, this Maine port wants your business

A small German city finds it’s not easy welcoming hundreds of Syrian refugees

What to say when you’re Asian American and someone calls you ‘exotic’

Trump says we’re losing badly with trade. But North Dakota suggests otherwise.

The end of FARC’s 50-year pregnancy ban leads to a baby boom

This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea

How Putin learned to stop worrying and love internet espionage

She missed five years of school because of the Syrian war. She won’t let that happen to her little brother.

What happened when ‘The Bachelorette’ featured a Sikh convert

After fleeing Palmyra, this Syrian family is trying to find home in small-town Germany

Climate warrior? Champion of ‘Big Oil’? Canada’s leader wants to be both.

For businesses that boom in the summer, Trump’s H-2B visa expansion is too little too late

Photographer hopes intimate portraits of wildlife will prove they’re worth saving

The Brits are in the midst of a great big cheddar cheese caper

50 States: America’s place in a shrinking world

The royal-turned-warlord and opium pioneer of the Golden Triangle dies at 90

Seven million Venezuelans voted against the president’s constitution reform. Will it make a difference?

Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.

In largely Muslim Pakistan, a taboo atheist subculture endures

Survivors of the London tower fire say they’ll launch their own investigation

A world zombified by George A. Romero

This man spent his life challenging stereotypes of Arabs in film and television