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The legacy edition
‘There was a lot of discord around campus. They couldn’t keep sweeping it under the rug.’
Journey interrupted
‘During that selection, we were the chosen ones to die’
History in the making
The story of Mexican migration to the US goes back decades
Safe spaces
Volunteers in the US form underground networks to house migrants with nowhere else to go
Heads Up
The US is fast-tracking facial recognition technology at its major airports
Signs and signals
A sanctuary city tries to stop deportation flights
Be you for you
A transgender athlete supports the IAAF’s controversial definition of women.
At what cost?
Have you heard how many weapons the US has sold to Saudi Arabia?
Travel plans
Immigrants and refugees make ideal guides for a museum in Philadelphia.
Oath of allegiance
Controversy over US citizenship, privacy, and next year's census. Who will be counted?
Action plan
Cyberwarfare and the Pentagon’s plan for Iran
Notes from a new world
Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, gets toned down in Russia
Waste land
America's 'recycled' plastic is creating illegal wastelands in South East Asia
Refugee story
How one refugee family from Syria is starting over in California
State of anxiety
A post-9/11 law could allow President Trump to bypass Congress to wage war with Iran
Agree to Disagree
Immigrants in the US are very anxious about being asked if they’re citizens or not.
13/07/2019 GMT
How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.
Let’s talk
For many immigrant students, fear of deportation and family separation is a daily reality
Breaking with tradition
Saudi Arabia’s human rights record is causing some Muslims to rethink making the hajj
Means of destruction
"People have somehow forgotten what happens when a nuclear weapon hits"
Scoring points
The US-China trade dispute may be entering a dangerous new phase: currency warfare
The long wait
'Peace is the highest desire’ says Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the US
20 years of Putin
The man and the moments that defined modern Russia
400 years
A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own
Into the thaw (Part one)
Is Thwaites Glacier doomed? Scientists race against time to find out.
Into the thaw (Part two)
If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever.
The Mississippi: Pushed to the brink
With globalization and climate change, life on the Mississippi river is under threat
The evangelical edition
Megachurches, hip hop, and podcasts: American evangelical Christians are ‘not a monolith’
Who's listening?
‘I would like you to do us a favour’: The phone call that ignited a political storm
Covert affairs
An FBI informant pressured to spy on New York mosques seeks a way out