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August 2017

The International Space Station, photographed by the NASA shuttle Endeavor. Even as geopolitical situations get dicey on Earth, astronauts from different countries, even those in disagreement, still work together in space. (NASA)
Democracy

Where are the US and Russia finding common ground? Low Earth Orbit

MOSCOW — “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty,” said American astronaut Edgar Mitchell....

Aug 17, 2017
Girls in Chisec, Guatemala, receive bicycles from an initiative started by GroundTruth's Lauren Bohn, SchoolCycle. Bicycles allow girls to more easily travel to school, and give them autonomy over their own movement. (Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)
Rights

Bicycles give poor girls autonomy, but a decision in D.C. could change that

One blistering Guatemalan afternoon in February, 86-year-old Candelaria gathered with three generations of women in her family to...

Aug 16, 2017
Democracy

The Charlottesville attack and America’s state of emergency

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia —The governor had just declared a state of emergency when the silver Dodge Challenger ploughed into...

Aug 13, 2017
Faith

Amid harassment and fears, Muslim community in Texas endures

AUSTIN, Texas — Kay Zazy stepped out of her car into the pre-dawn chill to find firefighters inspecting...

Aug 10, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured here at the 2017 CPAC conference in Maryland. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons)
Asia

The damage Trump has done with his ‘fire and fury’ threat against North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — Seoul’s streets may be business as usual, with Koreans and foreigners alike filing into...

Aug 10, 2017
About 80% of Kenya's population is younger than 35. Observers believe youth voters will move Kenyan politics away from tribal affiliation and towards issue-based voting. But some experts say tribal affiliation runs very deep. (Neha Wadekar/GroundTruth)
Democracy

Kenyan youth move toward issue-based voting, but tribal loyalty remains strong

NAIROBI, Kenya — Grassroots activist and self-proclaimed artist Guiere Lumumba, 24, loiters outside a community center in Mathare,...

Aug 10, 2017
Beth Schwartzapfel has covered criminal justice issues all over the United States. Pictured, the New York County Supreme Court building in Lower Manhattan. (gigi_nyc/Flickr Creative Commons)
Navigator

Advice on asking tough questions

This article originally appeared on Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here.  Every journalist...

Aug 09, 2017
Photojournalist Horst Faas, who took this picture of the Vietnam War, is among five journalists whose efforts at holding the U.S. government accountable is featured in the documentary, DATELINE—SAIGON. (Horst Faas via Dateline-Saigon)
Media Industry

Documentary about Vietnam War reporters holds lessons for the present

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts — Like an illumination round fired from an artillery shell, a new documentary film titled...

Aug 04, 2017
Captain Fred Penney is a lobsterman based out of Boston Harbor. He agrees that fishing regulations should take environmental conservation into account, but thinks designating the Northeast Seamounts and Canyons as a national monument circumvented the fisheries management process. (Ellen Kazinger/GroundTruth)
Environment

Review renews debate over first Atlantic marine national monument

BOSTON — For a marine scientist, the ancient corals found in the Atlantic Ocean compare to the towering...

Aug 04, 2017
The Trump administration's proposed RAISE Act, to limit immigration, defies the spirit of the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, writes Kevin Grant. (Alex.m.Hayward/Flickr)
Democracy

Why the RAISE Act is bad policy driven by hate and fear

WASHINGTON — Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s comments about the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty crawled under the skin...

Aug 04, 2017
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