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College leaders and international students brace for Trump administration

The World's Global Classroom

International college students — and their schools in the US — are bracing for President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. College administrators insist foreign students are welcome on campus. But that message doesn’t always match the student experience.

Hamptons hospital adapts fall-prevention classes for aging Spanish-speaking population 

Immigration

For this Ghanaian American headed to Stanford, supporting her community — even from afar — is her top priority

The World's Global Classroom

Native Americans hold National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving in solidarity with Indigenous struggles around the globe

Human rights

In the dry Colorado River Delta, the future of these green oases hangs in the balance

Environment

In Okinawa, an independence movement finds an unlikely ally

Japan in Focus

For a small but vocal group of mostly older activists, reclaiming Okinawa’s history as the Ryukyu Kingdom and pushing for independence from Japan is a deeply personal mission. It’s being supported by an unlikely ally: Beijing.

Despite new campus rules, Columbia University students vow to continue protests against Gaza war

The World's Global Classroom

Classes have resumed at Columbia University amid new restrictions following last year’s protests and encampments against the war in Gaza. Yasmeen Altaji, a May graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and now a freelance journalist, dedicated her final semester to documenting those protests. Altaji brings the story of one student who is resolved to continue her fight against the war despite new rules limiting protest.

New York’s Met Opera debuts ‘Ainadamar’ about Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca and his muse 

Arts, Culture & Media

A new production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera sounds and looks different from anything presented at the venerable opera house before, featuring flamenco rhythms and dance.  

Meet the Jamaicans who harvest the Champlain Valley’s apples

Immigration

Jamaican migrant workers are a huge part of the backbone that sustains New York’s North Country orchards.

US presidential election sees ramped-up rhetoric on border and immigration

Elections

Ahead of November’s vote, US presidential candidates are making their last attempts to sell their plans on tackling immigration.

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