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The U.S. has held elections in worse times than now, but this year brings daunting challenges to voting. Here, academic experts describe five major threats to election 2020 – and one has tips to make sure your vote is counted anyway.

Colombia could be heading for “a new armed struggle.” How did this happen? These six stories outline Colombia’s complicated peace process.

Nearly 40,000 fires are burning in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season. Don’t blame dry weather, say environmentalists. These Amazonian wildfires are a human-made disaster.

This kind of project can reduce violence, make a city more livable, and reduce migration. So why isn’t the U.S. funding more of them?

Just days after Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro survived a 21 January military coup attempt, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition-dominated legislature declared himself the country’s interim president. “I swear to formally assume the powers of the national executive as president i…

How did El Salvador become so violent? These four articles shed some light on the country’s complex crime problem. Spoiler: It’s not just about the gangs.

Cities can’t build their way out of mass incarceration, but they could aim for a culture of well-being and respect on their way to making criminal justice more just — and more neighborly.

The Western Hemisphere’s biggest city has developed a model blueprint for progressive housing policy in developing countries.

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Street protests erupted across Cuba on July 11, 2021, with crowds of Cubans demonstrating against food scarcity, medicine shortages and economic misery in their island nation. Here are four stories that describe current conditions in Cuba and the recent history behind this rare public outpouring of …

Researchers explain how farming and big infrastructure projects drive the deforestation that’s killing the Amazon

Pedro Castillo cannot impose a radical program. His party does not have the majority in Congress. So he has had to make alliances. He has just assembled a coalition of parties from the center and the liberal left, plus the radical left of his party. Even so, he doesn’t have a majority of votes in Co…

Street protests erupted across Cuba on July 11, 2021, with crowds of Cubans demonstrating against food scarcity, medicine shortages and economic misery in their island nation. Here are four stories that describe current conditions in Cuba and the recent history behind this rare public outpouring of …

Experts explain the history of Colombia’s fragile peace process

The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that it will eliminate the Temporary Protected Status that gave provisional U.S. residency to Salvadoran migrants after a 2001 earthquake. Some 200…

There’s nothing like Miami during spring break: the sun, the sea, the clubs, the asinine fealty to federal deportation policies that are not only...

Pedro Castillo cannot impose a radical program. His party does not have the majority in Congress. So he has had to make alliances. He has just assembled a coalition of parties from the center and the liberal left, plus the radical left of his party. Even so, he doesn’t have a majority of votes in Co…

Pedro Castillo cannot impose a radical program. His party does not have the majority in Congress. So he has had to make alliances. He has just assembled a coalition of parties from the center and the liberal left, plus the radical left of his party. Even so, he doesn’t have a majority of votes in Co…

Panic and turmoil grip Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents captured the capital city of Kabul and the president fled on Aug. 15, 2021.

By Catesby Holmes, International Editor | Politics Editor, The Conversation The president of Afghanistan has fled and the government apparently fallen, after Taliban insurgents captured the capital city of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021. The Taliban also seized the presidential palace.There would be “no tra…