Monica Campbell

Cartagena's historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and contains some of the best preserved examples of 18th century military architecture in the Caribbean. The city's walls were built with slave labor.

Where The World has been in 2021 — the year in pictures

December 27, 2021Photography

From migrants in Greece, to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, to rebuilding Lebanon and Haiti, our correspondents from around the globe bring you images of the important stories of 2021.

Why a hate crime survivor tried to save the life of his would-be killer

February 8, 2017Justice

This Syrian refugee family was split apart by new US travel rules

February 3, 2017Global Politics

A Trump dad and his Bernie daughter clash over immigrants’ rights

June 6, 2016Global Politics

What’s it like to be a migrant farmworker? One anthropologist lived and worked alongside them.

February 5, 2015Books

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What Obama didn’t mention in the State of the Union

January 21, 2015Global Politics

Yemen? Boko Haram? Syria’s massive refugee crisis? All missed the cut in the president’s speech.

US President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington January 28, 2014.

The State of the Union with The World’s newsroom

January 28, 2014Global Politics

Tuesday evening The World newsroom watched The State of the Union and live tweeted. Follow the hashtag #worldwatches for ongoing takeaways from our producers and reporters.

Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Russia who moved to the US in 1989, sits at a journalism reunion in Boston with reporter Peg Simpson.

Journalist Vladimir Voina on leaving Russia, buying beer, and the ‘foolish’ US government shutdown

October 2, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Inspired by Philadelphia’s South Asian American Digital Archive, and its project that collects immigrants’ stories about their first days in America, we’ve begun gathering similar stories from immigrants throughout the globe. This next installment comes from Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Moscow who has written for Russian and US newspapers. In 1989, he moved to Boston for a journalism fellowship and stayed. He spoke about his early memories of America with The World’s Global Nation editor Monica Campbell.

New deportation policy and same-sex couples

August 15, 2013Global Politics

While Obama administration’s new deportation policy recognizes same-sex couples as family, it only applies to people already in deportation process.

Latino Comic Book Artists Explore Roots, Culture

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The world of comic books characters created by Latino artists is growing.

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