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What Is America Without Its Health?

The Power of Leading with Empathy

A Personal Story: Understanding the Brutality of the Iranian Regime

What Do Iranians Want? Inside Iran After the American Strikes

Justice Without a Defendant? Kony’s Trial Set, But the Warlord Is Nowhere to Be Found

Unseating Tehran: What Would It Take to Dismantle the Regime?

The Toxic War on Kids

What It’s Really Like to Travel Alone as a Woman in Iran

What the Israeli Strikes Mean for the U.S-Iran Nuclear Deal

The Parade of Power on Taxpayer Dime

Dispatches: The Human Cost of America’s Overseas Cuts and a Global Girls' Struggle

Washington, Pay What You Owe

NATO's Problem

The Hard Truth – And What We Want to Tell Our Daughters

Who stands to lose from "fertility awareness" education?

Dispatches: American Weapons and Global Accountability

What do Crimeans Want?

Dispatches: How to Go from Ballet to Battlefields

When American Weapons Kill Civilians, Who’s Responsible?

The Ending of Syria Sanctions: What It Means for a War-Torn Nation

The Life Before: How Ballet Led Me to War Reporting

Behind the U.S's fascination with "mineral diplomacy"

Dispatch: What's the Deal with America's Infertility Crisis?

Why the U.S. Fertility Rate is Declining

Literacy Rates Are Rising—A Silver Lining in a Dark World

Mother's Day Series: The Fight for Life in a Taliban-run Maternity Hospital

Dispatches: Motherhood in the Crossfire. Stories from El Salvador to Darfur

Mother's Day Series: Loss and Birth Under Fire in El Salvador

Mother's Day Series: The Jaw-Dropping Mothers of Darfur

Outside the Box: Is an AI Chatbot the Future of Combat Trauma Therapy?

Dispatches: Media Censorship and America’s Motherhood Crisis

Breaking the Silence: Filmmaker Tahyna MacManus on Miscarriage and Peeling Away the Stigma

Funding Elites or Serving the Underserved? Rethinking Billions in University Aid

Who Do You Want To Be?

Dispatches: Mexico’s Disappeared and the Mothers Who Won’t Stop Searching

America Doesn’t Need Medals for Mothers

Syria’s Chemical Weapons Stockpile Far Larger Than Expected: What Comes Next?

The Cartel Crisis: Disappeared in Mexico, and the Mothers Fighting Back

The Six Books That Changed My Life

From Damascus to Moscow: The Exiled Life of Bashar al-Assad

Dispatches: The Stolen Children of Ukraine and Sacred Parenting Practices

A Sip of Something Sour: The Sinister Origins of Yogi Tea

Stolen Childhoods: Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children

Mother's Day Series: The Fight for Life in a Taliban-run Maternity Hospital

Capitalism Needs a Conscience: Why We Must Rethink Our Trade Relationship with China

The Cost of Staying Informed: How to Consume News Without Letting It Consume You

Dispatches: Unmasking the Uyghur Crisis & Global Apathy

The World Turns a Blind Eye: The Humanitarian Crisis in China

50 Years Since Saigon’s Fall: Remembering One Boy’s Plight to America

From War-Torn Baghdad to Redemption: Waleed Hamza’s Mission to Help Veterans

The Fight for Federal Action in the Age of Revenge Porn

Navigating the Weight of the World: Finding Peace Amidst Immense Sadness

The People of Mexico Deserve Better: What Will It Take to Clean Up the Cartels?

Erdogan's Next Move: What Washington and NATO Are Really Facing

The U.S. Retreat from Agent Orange Cleanup in Vietnam

Former Nevada CMO’s Reflection on the Mandalay Bay Mass Shooting, the Cost of Public Service and How to Fix Our Failing Healthcare System

Dr. Afridi’s Son Speaks Out as His Dad Languishes Behind Bars, Abandoned After Aiding in Bin Laden’s Death

Digging Deeper: Why South Africa is in the White House's Crosshairs

Fear, Faith, Car Crashes and Gratitude

Denmark’s Dark Past: The Forced Birth Control of Greenland’s Indigenous Girls

Behind in the Fight to Bring Wrongfully Detained Americans Home

The Motivations Behind the "Sectarian Killings" in Syria

What I say when people ask: what can I do to change the world?

Understanding "Birth Tourism": A Thriving Business in a Legal Gray Area

The War That Won’t End? Turkey’s Conflict with the Kurds Faces a Turning Point

The Man with the Golden Arm and the Quiet Power of Kindness

There Was No Promise to Russia of “No NATO at Its Borders.” This is what really happened.

Saving Lives, Securing Influence: The Case for Americans Helping Others

The Death Penalty Debate in America

The Problem with ‘Not Our Problem’

Over 150 Women Raped and Burned Alive in a Congo Prison—It Doesn't Make the News.

What Many Misunderstand About the War in Ukraine

Maternal Mortality in the Developing World: A Preventable Tragedy

Russia’s Economy in 2025: A War Machine Running Low on Fuel

Crisis in Eastern Congo: What’s Happening and How the Fighting Impacts the Most Vulnerable

Understanding What is Going on in Guantanamo Bay

How to Deal with Venezuela’s Strongman Maduro

Who’s Pulling Their Weight? The Global Refugee Divide

A Word About Medical Professionals

USAID Under Fire: Some Findings Should Shock You

Is U.S. Foreign Aid a Waste? Here's the Deal

Why Some Causes Ignite Campus Protests While Others Go Unnoticed

The Inherent Worth of Every Child: Why Moral Equivalence Should Not Be Controversial

Plane crash, recovery missions and how in an instant, everything can change

Red Tape and Raw Resilience: Western North Carolina’s Long Road to Recovery from Hurricane Helene

Why Banning the Afghan Cricket Team Won’t Advance Human Rights

The Mounting Death Toll in Ukraine

Fueling the War: How Russia’s Military Machine Continues to Profit Amid Conflict

Why Children Bear the Brunt of War and Suffer the Most

Where and Why ISIS is Coming Back

The Los Angeles Fires and the Fragility of Empathy

More Than Just Things: The Deep Ache of Losing Everything

Behind Veteran's Affairs Ongoing Woes

Iran’s Frightening Development of Fentanyl-Based Chemical Weapons

How Chinese Spies Infiltrate the U.S. Government