Bruce Wallace

Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility, in Brownsville, Texas on June 18, 2014.

What you missed in US immigration this year

Conflict

The largest immigration detention center opened. Refugees from Bhutan struggled with depression and suicide. And migrants rode The Beast. These are the stories from 2014 you may have missed.

John Wurdeman, co-founder of Pheasant’s Tears winery in the eastern Georgian province of Kiziqi. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and became fascinated by Georgia after stumbling onto a CD of folk music from the country.

How a CD in the state of Virginia led to a wine rebirth in the country of Georgia

Food
Adolfo Carrión campaigns along 116th Street in “El Barrio” in East Harlem. Carrión, a former Bronx Borough President and member of the Obama administration, is running for New York City mayor on the Independence Party ticket.

How New York City’s Latino politics are shifting

Global Politics

The Uncertain Road Back for Shan Refugees

Joy essential ingredient in party music from rural El Salvador

Arts, Culture & Media

Swiss Trio, Mama Rosin, and the Geneva-Louisiana Connection

Global Hit

The Swiss trio Mama Rosin is influenced by bands like The Clash and the Velvet Underground, but their real love is music from Louisiana: Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco. Reporter Bruce Wallace met up with them on their first visit to Louisiana.

Bachata: Two Generations Carry on Playing Music from Dominican Republic

Arts, Culture & Media

Two generations of bachata musicians gathered to pay homage to the classic style of music from the Dominican Republic’s rural north. Bruce Wallace went to a performance in New York City.

The World

The Art and Friendship of Marcel Khalifé and Mahmoud Darwish

Arts, Culture & Media

Lebanese composer and oud player Marcel Khalifé tours the US paying homage to his friend, the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

The World

Why Chinese Factory Workers Don’t Covet Your iPad

Global Politics

Leslie T. Chang spent two years interviewing workers for her book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Chang thinks Westerns who feel guilty about buying the electronics these Chinese workers assemble are missing the point.

GlobalFest 2012 to Get Colombian Flavor with M.A.K.U Sound System

Arts, Culture & Media

M.A.K.U is a young band out of the thriving Colombian music scene across New York’s East River in Queens.