Ukraine’s first female police officers won’t be posing for selfies anymore. They’re too busy doing their jobs.

As tariffs send soy and corn prices plummeting, Trump says farmers will act like ‘patriots’

Here’s the next smooth step in Tash Sultana’s flow state

A family odyssey explores madness, Mexico and mythology

How to get beyond a tourist fantasy of Singapore

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is a big win for Asian American representation in Hollywood — but what about Singaporean representation?

As Muslim students fight for protection, some parents battle to keep Islam out of schools

Denuclearization is not going to happen, says this North Korea expert

Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport

When the government wrongly deports people, coming back to the US is almost impossible

Separated from their kids by deportation, these parents raise their family long-distance

A Pennsylvania steel town reinvents itself with a future beyond steel

A former refugee leads families back to an Indonesian island so they can find graves

Young Syrian men don’t just fear the war, they fear being forced to join it

Young Nigerian women migrating to Europe are prime targets for sex traffickers

A gift from small-town Iowa brings light to Paraguay’s capital

Yes, they came as refugees, but on ‘Queen Sugar’ this family from Vietnam gets to be so much more

Haiti has a burgeoning entrepreneur scene, but can it make room for Haitians forced to return from the US?

There’s a fight going on in schools over when history begins

Concrete production uses a ton of sand and emits a lot of carbon. Here are some greener alternatives.

With new album, this Swedish-Senegalese couple shows their family is ‘made of music’

After the Egyptian military took away a political satirist’s show, he podcasts about his new life in LA

A global sand grab is wrecking ecosystems and communities around the world

US risks fallout from UAE’s prisoner abuse scandal in Yemen

This Indian composer’s first hit was a song about Boroline. Now she’s an internet sensation.

‘Everyone is an enemy who’s deserving of death, rape and jail’: Death squads have returned to Nicaragua

As China gets tough on recycling, will America get cleaner?

Former detainees tell New Mexico legislators about abuses in immigration detention as county seeks to renew contracts

Did Trump commit treason in Helsinki?

Joan Baez reflects on these ‘ghastly’ times

After four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine ‘women do better’ than men when it comes to rebuilding their lives

Chided in the West, cave-rescued coach is seen as saintly in Thailand

American evangelicals are more diverse than ever. But some don’t want to be part of the ‘evangelical movement.’

Paraguay’s #MeToo: ‘He likes you, so he will rape you’

President Trump goes to Europe — and satirists have a field day

Despite losing its state child care license — and years of claims of abuses — an immigrant family detention center in Pennsylvania made room for more families

In Paraguay, fighting for women’s rights means fighting the past

Will dumping plastic straws lead to more environmental progress, or complacency?

As Trump-Putin summit looms, Russia eyes its return to global power status

‘They like me a lot in the UK,’ says Trump. He’s not entirely wrong.

What a Justice Kavanaugh could mean for climate change

Philadelphia ice cream is a luxury in China … with a scoop of import tax

In Mexico City, if you want cheese in your quesadilla, you have to ask

The story behind why Paraguay followed the US and moved its embassy to Jerusalem

Reactions after US tries to weaken UN breastfeeding measure: Breastfeeding is already ‘pretty damned hard’

For Filipinos with disabilities, climate change and natural disasters are a dangerous mix

This mother and daughter have been reunited, but there is still much of their life they need to put back together

An iconic image challenged the politics of Cuban Americans

How balloons gave a blind South Korean artist his life back

Chronic insomnia plagues young migrants long after they reach their destination

A protest against Yemeni refugees reveals how South Korea has been ‘educated to think about foreigners’

This Afropop band’s founders are both refugees from Africa, but they met on a Vermont soccer field

It’s ironic that we play the ‘1812 Overture’ at Fourth of July celebrations

In New York, volunteers engage in a quiet form of advocacy for immigrants facing deportation

The government says Border Patrol agents in the Southwest speak Spanish — but many migrants speak Indigenous languages

Changes to French public university admissions leaves more than 150,000 without a spot this fall

In France, #MeToo protests force a rock star who killed his girlfriend to give up tour

Chinese political cartoonist Rebel Pepper finds more artistic freedom in the US

Once the go-to place for surrogacy, India tightens control over its baby industry

Homeland Security decides not to deport 1,250 Yemenis to a war zone