Grit and the gridiron rescue a town Residents of Refugio, Texas, defying a hurricane’s destruction, rally around a football team and each other. 

BRIEFING: GUN CONTROL: GLIMMERS OF COMPROMISE For some, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 cemented a feeling of national helplessness. Yet it has also prompted a flurry of movement around the question of gun rights versus gun control.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Can a flag be hate speech? By Ryan Lenora Brown.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE The write hand: Pushpa Nagaraj helps hundreds of disabled students in India take exams
By Ganesh Vancheeswaran.

COVER STORY By Noelle Swan and Nathan Eagle How Hawaii is trying to forge a post-fossil fuel future – and the problems it faces in getting there.

COVER STORY By Howard LaFranchi India is poised to be the world’s next economic colossus. But will it really get there?

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES A new generation of socialists seeks local autonomy By Harry Bruinius.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE K. Killian Noe spreads ‘radical hospitality’ to individuals who are in recovery By Ann Scott Tyson.

Cover Story - By Clara Germani Why African Americans are digging into their past on the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in the U.S. 

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Iowans take the measure of candidate Pete Buttigieg By Christa Case Bryant.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE Marvin DeJear bolsters community – one client at a time By David Karas.

COVER STORY By Harry Bruinius With 800 dialects, the New York borough of Queens is the most linguistically diverse place in the world.

HOME FORUM ESSAY Doing for others what I don’t do for myself By Murr Brewster.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES US awakens to white nationalist terror By Patrik Jonsson and Harry Bruinius.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES How a hurricane stirred a political storm By Howard LaFranchi.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE America has been a beacon of hope for Maddie Collins. She’s become a reflection of that light. By Christa Case Bryant.

COVER STORY By Stephen Humphries How Woodstock changed a generation – and still resonates today.

COVER STORY By Michael S. Hopkins Why people want tents with king-size beds, showers, and maybe even a butler – in the wild.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Canada’s First Nations reassert their heritage By Sara Miller Llana.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE Deborah Bullivant is using a little magic to turn kids into writers By Simon Montlake.

HOME FORUM ESSAY How the object of my search found me instead By Anna Tarnow.

Young people are moving back to farms on the Great Plains. Can they save rural America? By Laurent Belsie.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE By relaunching the village store, Peter Böhmer is helping restore a lost sense of community By Isabelle de Pommereau.

COVER STORY By Eva Botkin-Kowacki How the moon landing, 50 years ago, inspired a nation and changed the world.

CULTURE A visit to humorist James Thurber’s home By Peter Tonguette.

HOME FORUM ESSAY Mastering the language of my second home By Sue Wunder.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Kick-starting diversity in Congress By Jessica Mendoza.

COVER STORY By Harry Bruinius and Patrik Jonsson Survivors are finding that they can not only recover but grow after catastrophic events.

HOME FORUM ESSAY I keep on the sunny side of siding By Murr Brewster.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE For Tonika Johnson, photos can reach across racial divides By Richard Mertens.

COVER STORY By Simon Montlake Rising seas and melting permafrost are forcing Native villages to consider relocating. Is this the future for other U.S. coastal areas?

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE For Feroza Mushtari, midwifery is a pillar of women’s empowerment By Scott Peterson.

IN PICTURES Taking aim at Civil War history Story and photos by Alfredo Sosa.

How a young generation of advocates on both sides of the abortion dispute is shaping the message on the streets.

HOME FORUM ESSAY A lifelong gift from the grand shaman By Todd R. Nelson.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Helping indigenous mothers in Canada By Sara Miller Llana.

HOME FORUM ESSAY A little toy car’s cycle of happiness By James Fabiano.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE How to help Mexican migrants? Publish news they can use. By Whitney Eulich.

SCIENCE AND NATURE GOP warms to the idea of climate change policy By Mark Trumbull.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE When Dan Rhoton looks at Camden, he doesn’t see crime or poverty. He sees hope. By David Karas.

SCIENCE AND NATURE AI race is on: Should the US collaborate with China? By Ann Scott Tyson.

Rainfall revives Iraq’s historic marshes Story by Raya Jalabi Photos by Thaier al-Sudani.

HOME FORUM ESSAY Kicking it with Mia Hamm By Kendra Nordin Beato.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE Legal fights and threats to life: Alfred Brownell wins Green Nobel By Clarence Leong.

SCIENCE AND NATURE Who will dig up China’s plentiful dinosaur fossils? By Lenora Chu.

Our correspondent tells what it was like to cover Congress – and reveals a few tricks to buttonholing lawmakers.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE Doniece Sandoval provides mobile showers to the unhoused – along with dignity and respect.

SCIENCE AND NATURE Whose DNA? Home test kits raise privacy concerns.

COVER STORY By Anna Mulrine Grobe Churches step in to protect asylum-seekers from being deported, embroiling themselves in Europe’s fraught immigration debate.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES In Spain, feminism faces a backlash By Catarina Fernandes Martins.

DESIGN African artists collaborate with Ikea By Ryan Lenora Brown.

Why sports salaries are vaulting upward – and what that says about society’s values - By Phil Taylor.

Holy grail: how Hollywood can get religious movies right By Stephen Humphries.

Chatty ‘Non-Fiction’ explores whether anything is truly fictional By Peter Rainer.

THE ART OF THE STEAL By Kristen Chick and Ryan Lenora Brown Museums across Europe wrestle with whether to return objects taken during the colonial era in Africa.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE Mark Horvath makes videos so people can better understand homelessness. By Bryan Kay.

THE IMMIGRANT CRUSADER By Simon Montlake Marty Rosenbluth runs a one-man legal shop in rural Georgia that helps migrants navigate the toughest immigration court in the U.S.

HUMANITY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Neighbors help neighbors in Nebraska By Laurent Belsie.

Diversifying the campus quad Louisiana State University is boosting minority admissions. How can other schools follow suit? BY CASEY PARKS.

HEART OF THE NEWS: ARTIFACTS AND TEARS: AFGHANS CONFRONT THE EMOTIONAL COST OF WAR The public reckoning with decades of war has found an outpost at the Afghanistan Center for Memory and Dialogue. BY SCOTT PETERSON.

Far-right extremism goes global How terrorism by white supremacists will draw more attention after the New Zealand attack. BY ANN SCOTT TYSON AND SARA MILLER LLANA.

HEART OF THE NEWS: AS ISIS FELL, SYRIAN HOSPITAL WAS INUNDATED BY A WAVE OF ITS CHILDREN A hospital in Syria says it has received more than 1,000 tiny patients from the Al-Hol refugee camp in eastern Syria since the U.S.-led coalition pinned down ISIS fighters. BY DOMINIQUE SOGUEL.

Native justice In Northern California, Judge Abby’s tribal court holds lessons for the American justice system. BY HENRY GASS

HEART OF THE NEWS: AFTER NEW ZEALAND TERROR, THE FAITHFUL GRAPPLE WITH A QUESTION: WHY? In the past few years, white supremacist gunmen have targeted worshippers as they gathered to pray. Responses to each have included instances of startling and unexpected expressions of faith. BY HARRY BRUINIUS.

Party lines Why Republicans and Democrats don’t have to worry about a third-party candidate becoming president. BY PETER GRIER.

BRIEFING: THE MUELLER REPORT: WHAT TO EXPECT The special counsel has been investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion for 22 months. BY WARREN RICHEY.

The budding nuclear threat As the US and Russia back away from arms control, how worried should the world be? BY HOWARD LAFRANCHI.

HEART OF THE NEWS: HOW NEW ORLEANS POLICE WENT FROM ‘MOST CORRUPT’ TO MODEL FORCE By at least one measure, this police force had ranked as the most corrupt in the US. But today, the NOPD has become a pioneer in humanistic policing. BY PATRIK JONSSON.

Pray & wash A new movement brings church to the people – in barns, cafes, libraries, and even laundromats. BY G. JEFFREY MACDONALD.

BRIEFING: IN ARAB WORLD, A NEW RISING ALLIANCE A new informal alignment of Sunni Arab countries is stepping up in the Arab world with a voice on issues ranging from postwar Syria and the thwarting of Iran to diplomatic overtures on the Yemen and Israeli- Palestinian conflicts. BY TAYLOR LUCK.

Solving unsolved murders A rise in cold cases is testing detectives across the US. How cities are clearing the backlog. BY PATRIK JONSSON.

BRIEFING: WHAT’S FUELING PROTESTS IN SERBIA? Serbia’s last mass movement ousted the autocrat Slobodan Milošević almost 20 years ago. Now, with several months of antigovernment protests jolting the Balkan nation, its current president is on notice. BY SARAH MATUSEK.

Northern composure Why the populist anger that has swept so much of the West has largely bypassed Canada. BY SARA MILLER LLANA.

BRIEFING: HOW TO BREAK UP WITH FACEBOOK Even though Facebook helps people maintain vital social bonds, often providing the sole link to distant friends and former classmates and colleagues, these connections come at a steep price. BY REBECCA ASOULIN, EOIN O’CARROLL, AND NOBLE INGRAM.

From prison to prime minister Nikol Pashinyan led a peaceful revolution that may turn Armenia into a democratic model. Now, can he govern? BY FELIX FRANZ.

HEART OF THE NEWS: WHEN THE ECONOMY’S BAD AND YOUR LEADER’S AN AUTOCRAT, DO YOU GO? Turkey’s so-called brain drain is accelerating, jumping 63.5 percent from 2016 to 2017 alone according to government statistics, and taking with it an educated and financial elite tired of grappling with chronic uncertainty. BY SCOTT PETERSON.

Healing a ‘broken heart’ One woman’s story of being abducted by Boko Haram and then shunned by her family when she returned. How she’s being saved. BY LESLIE ROBERTS.

HEART OF THE NEWS: WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN A TOWN THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS YELLING ABOUT
A recent uproar in Covington, Ky., may say less about those particular boys, or that particular town, than it does about the divide in the country. BY CHRISTA CASE BRYANT.

Breaking barriers in the workplace - From Germany to Canada to the US, more companies hire disabled workers  – not out of charity but for their skills.

AFTER NAIROBI ATTACK, SOMALIS IN KENYA CAUTIOUSLY HOPE FOR UNITY - For Somali community leaders, messages of solidarity suggest Kenya is changing, and that their long campaigns to bridge the divide are finally paying off.

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