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Democracy

Middle East

The dire consequences of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

Democracy

From Jerusalem to Appalachia: Tracking America’s ‘Unholy Divide’ 

WILLIAMSON, West Virginia — This week, it was hard not to feel like things were coming apart in...

Oct 05, 2018
Myanmar Police officers stand on guard outside a courtroom in Insein Township during Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's trial.
Democracy

Myanmar’s press makes a stand against censorship

Myanmar’s press makes a stand against censorship: Introduction WASHINGTON — Journalists across Myanmar are risking their own safety...

Sep 07, 2018
Democracy

Pushing back against an attack on our democracy

This column originally appeared in GroundTruth’s newsletter. You can subscribe here.  BOSTON — When Donald Trump started his populist war...

Aug 17, 2018
Democracy

What happens when local news disappears?

WASHINGTON — After 17 years covering the Maryland counties just outside the nation’s capital, editor Judy Hruz was “devastated”...

Aug 16, 2018
Clockwise from top left: Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiassen, Wendi Winters, Rebecca Smith and John McNamara. (Images courtesy of the Capital Gazette)
Democracy

Journalists vow to ‘press on’ after Capital Gazette remembrance

BOSTON — In newsrooms across America and in many corners of the world, a moment of silence marked...

Jul 06, 2018
Rajan Parajuli, the Nepali representative for the International NGO Population Media Center, shows part of a TV drama used to change societal norms around child marriage. (Photo by Lucy Lyons/GroundTruth)
Rights

How radio and TV dramas are helping to combat child marriage

By Lucy Lyons and Kristina Hare Lyons KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Child marriage affects 12 million girls worldwide...

Jun 29, 2018
Virginia Street at McFarland Street, circa 1912. The Charleston Daily Mail, at left, moved across the street in 1927 into the building it currently occupies. (Archival image from Charleston Gazette-Mail / Courtesy of James D. Scarbro Jr.)
Americas

Despite a sale and layoffs, West Virginia newspaper continues its tradition of ‘sustained outrage’

CHARLESTON, West Virginia — This town’s daily newspaper, the Gazette-Mail, is housed in a classic 1920s building made of...

May 09, 2018
Around 50 students from elementary to high school attend the Durihana International School. Students take classes in math, history, science, Korean, English, music, art, and moral studies. The school was founded by the Rev. Chun Ki Won. (Rachel Cohrs/GroundTruth)
Democracy

Why do South Korean Christians support North Korean defectors?

SEOUL, South Korea — Durihana International School occupies one floor of an unassuming office building in southern Seoul...

Apr 25, 2018
Religious beliefs, and the lack of it, help explain the political views Koreans hold. (Alan Mittelstaedt/GroundTruth)
Faith

Introduction: Religious divisions in South Korea inform attitudes on North Korea, social issues

SEOUL, South Korea — Travelers passing through Seoul Station escaped the spring rain and crowded around TV screens...

Apr 25, 2018
Because of the emphasis on family lineage, Korean parents are unenthusiastic about adoption, and orphans are socially stigmatized. Pictured, a volunteer holds a baby abandoned at a church's "baby box." (Paulina Cachero/GroundTruth)
Democracy

Korean orphans languish in system as tradition, new laws make adoption difficult

SEOUL — At around 1:30 p.m., Jae Min’s mother carried him up the worn green steps of Jusarang...

Apr 25, 2018
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