Pandemic in Italy
- Once resistant, Italy begins to take coronavirus more seriously, 2020
- As Italy orders drastic measures to stop coronavirus, some get ingenious, 2020
- Stores in Milan are finding creative ways to enforce Italy’s strict coronavirus rules, 2020
- Italian delivery workers want people to stop ordering stuff they don’t need, 2020
- Under lockdown, Italy debates if physical newspapers are essential, 2020
- Italy convinced people to stay home. Now it needs to help them cope, 2020
- More than 100,000 people have been caught defying Italy’s lockdown, 2020
- Italy’s bookstores are figuring out how to reopen a business after a lockdown, 2020
Migration
- Hundreds of Europeans are driving to Hungary to offer rides to stranded migrants, 2015
- The US will welcome just 30,000 refugees next year, the lowest in decades, 2018
- A boat captain is facing 20 years in prison for rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, 2019
Terrorism
- New data shows terror attacks are becoming less frequent and much less deadly, 2018
- Terrorist attacks in the Middle East and North Africa fell by almost 40% last year, 2018
- Terrorism is surging in the US, fueled by right-wing ideologies, 2018
United States
- Amazon’s best-selling books about “Russian Politics” are mostly about Donald Trump, 2018
- Republicans lost their last urban district last night, 2018
- The disturbing timeline of events surrounding the first Trump-Putin meeting, 2019
- Russia’s latest propaganda campaign was laughably easy to spot, 2019
- Roger Stone’s indictment hints at the origin of the #HillaryHealth conspiracy theories, 2019
- The US-Iran crisis is playing out in real time among officials on Twitter, 2020
Europe
- Welcome to Liberland: Turns out, launching your own country is harder than it looks, 2015
- A review of Boris Johnson’s grueling first days as foreign secretary, 2016
- The EU’s most powerful leaders will change this year, 2019
- Even the Russians don’t seem interested in the European elections, 2019
- Italy is evicting Steve Bannon from the monastery he planned to turn into a far-right academy, 2019
Brazil
- Polls show Brazilians are leaning toward a Trump of their own, 2018
- Brazil’s presidential frontrunner is questioning its voting machines—especially if he loses, 2018
- Brazil’s elections are getting violent, 2018
- Markets are welcoming Brazil’s new president. Can he be trusted? 2018
- Brazil’s biggest gunmaker crashed after the country elected a radical pro-gun president, 2018
Latin America
- The Americas’ oldest armed conflict just ended—what now? 2016
- Mexico’s new president is creating a special border patrol force, 2018
- Since April, more than 300 people have died protesting in Nicaragua, 2018
- A drug cartel in Colombia is offering a bounty of $7,000 for a cocaine-sniffing dog, 2018
Venezuela
- Donald Trump actually considered invading Venezuela last year, 2018
- With 1,000,000% inflation, Venezuela is slashing five zeroes from its currency, 2018
- Trump wasted no time supporting Venezuela’s self-proclaimed president, 2019
- Maduro and Guaidó are gearing up for a showdown at the Venezuelan border, 2019
