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Mely Revai in San Juan, Puerto Rico, holding a ritual kiddush cup she brought from her home Caracas.

A Venezuelan couple found refuge in Puerto Rico. Then the hurricane hit.

Belief

Venezuela used to have a thriving Jewish population. But many of them fled violence and economic collapse. One couple was settling into their new life in San Juan when Hurricane Maria hit.

An untitled piece by Martin Ramírez, (Train and Tunnel). Ramírez used crayons and glued together pieces of paper to make his drawings.

An anonymous psych patient is now acclaimed as a master artist of the immigrant experience

Arts
North Korea's embassy to the United Kingdom in west London where Thae Yong-Ho was deputy ambassador before his defection to South Korean in August 2016.

North Korea’s highest ranking defector has no regrets

Global Politics
Aerial photo of Naval Station Norfolk

What it might take to protect the world’s biggest naval base from rising seas

Environment
Members of civil society and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan hold placards during a protest in Islamabad May 29, 2014 against the killing of Farzana Iqbal, 25, by family members on Tuesday in Lahore.

Pakistani media mocks clerics who say men can ‘lightly beat’ wives

Justice
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Students at Valencia Community College

This Florida community college was named the best in the nation in 2011. So, what makes it so successful?

Education

Valencia College is a community college that stands apart from the crowd. It’s raking “geniuses from the coal.” Here’s the school’s secret.

Tania Bruguera

Cuban artist describes regime’s still-watchful eye

Arts

Tania Bruguera was arrested after trying to stage an open-mic performance in Revolution Square in Havana a few weeks back. She’s free now, but without her passport, and “I’m followed 24-7 by a car and by people.”

Dick DeBartolo

After 45 years, Mad Magazine’s Dick DeBartolo still delights in creating comic lunacy

Culture

Dick DeBartolo, Mad Magazine’s “Maddest Writer,” is 68, but still delights in adolescent high-jinks and now has a podcast, called “Giz Wiz, that reaches tens of thousands of people around the world.Dick DeBartolo, Mad Magazine’s “Maddest Writer,” is 68, but still delights in adolescent high-jinks and now has a podcast, called “Giz Wiz, that reaches tens of thousands of people around the world.

Januka Rasaeli, a pregnant woman in Nepal

In Nepal, the manual labor doesn’t stop for expectant mothers

Health & Medicine

For farm women in this South Asian nation, pregnancy brings no respite from hard physical labor. What is being done to give them a much-needed rest?

A hostess waits for participants at the Stiletto Run in Constanta, 155 miles east of Bucharest

In one Colombian town, women say no sex until their demands are met

Development & Education

Women in a small town in southwestern Colombia have stopped having sex with their significant others to protest the terrible condition of a road that connects their town to the rest of Colombia. The campaign, dubbed the “crossed legs movement,” seems to be working.

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