By Milo Beckman, FiveThirtyEight, July 19, 2016 When a man drove a truck through a crowd in Nice, France, on Thursday night, the act of mass...
ON THE MEDIA: Which Countries’ Terrorist Attacks Are Ignored By The U.S. Media?
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Issues and Analysis
AFGHANISTAN: Deciding to Leave Afghanistan, Part 3 of 3: What happens after arrival in Europe
Afghan refugees in Germany are concerned about their asylum application status; here a group of new arrivals is led to the registration centre in...
AFGHANISTAN: Deciding To Leave Afghanistan, Part 2 of 3: The routes and the risks
Afghan migrants detained in Turkey after coastguards rescued them from an island in the Aegean Sea where they got stranded en route to Greece....
ON THE MEDIA: Documentary Filmmakers Find That an Agenda Helps With Financing
nytimes.com, by John Anderson, July 8, 2016, original Social-issue documentaries are the white knights of cinema — vanquishing dragons, tilting at...
AFGHANISTAN: Why are so many returning refugees still landless?
Nangarhar, 2008: People returning from Jalozai and Naser Bagh camps in Pakistan have found it difficult to find clean water in some of the places...
AFGHANISTAN: Deciding To Leave Afghanistan, Part 1 of 3: Motives for migration
Afghan youth in Nimruz province about to cross illegally from Afghanistan into Iran, and then onward via Turkey to Europe. It is a risky journey...
MEDIA: First Person Singular, Autobiography in Documentary Film
The Independent, June 30, 2016 | By David Schwartz Three decades have passed since David Schwartz’s exploration of the connection between subjective...
DEVELOPMENT: Foreign Aid Accountability Bill Unanimously Approved by Congress, Heads to the President for Signature
modernizeaid.net, July 6, 2016, original, July 6, 2016 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan,...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Accused of Cover Up as Cholera Ravages Haiti-wnyc.org
Haitians wash clothes in a stream January 8, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Mario Tama / Getty) Since cholera first broke out in Haiti five years...
AFGHANISTAN, DEVELOPMENT: What the future holds for Afghan women-aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera speaks to Noorjahan Akbar, a human rights activist, about the immense challenges facing Afghan women aljazeera.com, By Liz Guch, 5/26/16...
HAITI: Clinton’s Long Shadow – jacobinmag.com
Is Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid suffocating democracy in Haiti? A growing number of informed observers, both in Haiti and in the United...