Honduras voted for change. Can Xiomara Castro, the president-elect, deliver?
She’ll be facing deeply embedded corruption, extreme poverty and unfriendly institutions, among other challenges
Elite private universities got much wealthier while most schools fell behind. My research found out why.
Insiders helped out insiders, and the rich got richer
The U.N. says Syrians can keep getting international aid from Turkey — for now. Here’s what’s at stake.
Syrian activists have built humanitarian aid groups and a nascent civil society in rebel-held areas — which puts them in danger if the Syrian government retakes that territory.
The Kremlin has a new toolkit for shutting down independent news media
Worldwide, authoritarians are finding less overt ways to shut down independent news — and independent outlets are finding new ways to stay alive
Why Peru’s next leader was elected by a less than 1 percent margin
For Pedro Castillo and the left-wing Peru Libre party, the challenges ahead are enormous
HBO’s new show explores HIV in the 1980s. 40 years later, stigma and prejudice are still going strong.
Our research examines why so few people with HIV hold public office.
Republican voters are deeply divided over Trump. So why do most Republican lawmakers still support him?
We looked at which GOP primary voters are most likely to vote based on support for his false election claims
It’s Susan B. Anthony Day. Here’s how women’s suffrage changed the world.
Democracies where women got to vote went to war less and spent more on health and education.