East Timor: Mountain of Memory

Karen Coates

Long ago, the country was home to lush rainforests, but during successive foreign occupations, loggers stripped away much of its tree canopy

South Africa: Rhinos Under the Gun

Katarzyna Nowak

Why the decline of megafauna is due to our direct persecution

Letter from Sinjar: Convert or Die

Cathy Otten

A city ravaged by ISIS is littered with explosives and mass graves

Letter from the Aral Sea: All Dried Up

Jeffrey Tayler

How the fourth-largest landlocked body of water on earth almost disappeared

Trinidad and Tobago: The Showman

Tom Zoellner

Popular anxiety about rising crime has buoyed the TV show “Crime Watch”

Letter from Myanmar: A Glimmer of Hope

Ingrid McDonald

Letter from Kakuma Camp, Kenya: Nowhere Girl

Neil Shea

Letter from Haiti: After the Earthquake

Madison Smartt Bell

Letter From Mumbai: Intolerance

Murzban F. Shroff

An open letter to India’s Prime Minister from a persecuted writer

Letter from Kaunas, Lithuania: Springtime for Putin

Leonidas Donskis

Letter from Maasailand: Seeds of Change

David McDannald

Letter from Benghazi: After the Revolution

Clare Morgana Gillis

Istanbul: Hot Days in the Park

Suzy Hansen

Vienna: Selective Amnesia

Alice Miller

Letter from Moscow: Putin’s Progress

Jeffrey Tayler

Madrid: Dignity and Indignation

Aaron Shulman

Srebrenica: The Scars of Genocide

Sarah Kenyon Lischer

Letter from Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace

Neil Shea

Traveling with U.S. troops gives insights into the recent massacre

Stuttgart: Continental Drifter

Olufemi Terry

Letter from Belfast: City of Walls

Robin Kirk

The Mexican Border: Crossing a Cultural Divide

Reed Karaim

Sri Lanka: Living Dangerously

Michael Hardy

Vietnam: ‘Good Memories, Bad War’

Christopher Davenport

Algeria: Waiting for a Goal

Eric Calderwood

Afghanistan: ‘So This Is Paktya’

Neil Shea

How ready are our allies to secure their own country?

Italy: ‘A Pilgrim's Progress’

Lincoln Perry

Rwanda: 'Our Big Mistake'

Sarah Kenyon Lischer

Letter from Morocco: The Living and the Dead

Eric Calderwood

Paris: A Twombly Ceiling

Grant Rosenberg

Dubai: Globalization on Steroids

William Morehouse

Burma: Captives of the Junta

William Lychack

Antarctica: Cold Comfort

Emily Stone

Oaxaca: No End in Sight

Robert Joe Stout

Vienna: Trapped in a Golden Age

Alexandra Starr

Letter from Cambodia: At Last, a Tribunal for Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Dustin Roasa

New Orleans: Chasing the Blues Away

Lawrence N. Powell

Caracas: Living Large on Oil

Alexandra Starr

Istanbul: The Group

Suzanne Scanlon

Qyteza: The Chicago Connection

Allison Stanger

Rio: Feckless and Reckless

Alan Peter Ryan

Amman: The War Next Door

Ingrid McDonald

Paris: The Death of Derrida

Charles Trueheart