What the country teaches the world about the importance of an independent press. Source: Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
ON THE MEDIA | Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
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Issues and Analysis
ON DEVELOPMENT | Destabilizing Rescissions to Foreign Aid Funds Reportedly Halted | MFAN
The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network applauds the efforts of Congress and development champions to safeguard predictability for U.S....
ON MIGRATION | Court allows claims to move forward against private prison company that profits from forced labor of detained immigrants
A federal court has ruled that a private prison company can be held liable for forcing detained immigrants to work for as little as $1 a day to...
ON DEVELOPMENT | Blood, Sweat, and Batteries
Two-thirds of the world's cobalt, an essential ingredient in our smartphones and electric cars, comes from one of the planet's poorest countries....
ON THE MEDIA | Explanatory video + engagement = How Vox’s Borders series is humanizing the map and building local source networks
"I was sensitive to saying, 'Here I am, an outsider, a non-expert going to these places and saying I’m here to explain this.'" Source: Explanatory...
IMMIGRATION ISSUES | When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they...
ON THE MEDIA | Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam arrested over ‘provocative comments’
Shahidul Alam, an influential voice in photography, criticized his government's use of violence to repress protests Source: Analysis | Bangladeshi...
In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp) have a civil conversation
And apparently without incident! "The ultimate goal is a less polarized debate and a less polarized, more open, and plural public...But we also want...
Targeting immigrants for robbery deserves real punishment | Opinion
Local police who've targeted immigrants for robbery have gotten off awfully light. Source: Targeting immigrants for robbery deserves real punishment...
If Haiti’s government does not confront poverty, corruption, more unrest will follow
Haiti’s poverty, like the fuel-price increases, is the product of decisions made by those who possess wealth and power in Haiti and abroad — with a...
Should you major in journalism? Here are stories from eight working journalists who didn’t
"If you decide that maybe journalism school isn't a great fit for you, then take every opportunity to build up the skills that you will need in...
ON MIGRATION – Update from the US-Mexico border from U.S. Representative Michael E. Capuano
An update from the office of U.S. Representative Michael E. Capuano 7th Congressional District of Massachusetts June 27, 2018 Dear Friends, I spent...