Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Demonstrators hold signs in support of the country's self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido and and for foreign humanitarian aid, next to the Tienditas International Bridge, near Cucuta, Colombia, on Feb. 8. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Filipe Domingues
“As long as there is a dictatorship in Venezuela, it is better not to return,” said Alexander. “I feel that there is an illegitimate government, a power that literally controls everything, but also an opposition that has defrauded the people many times.”
The United States remains the world’s top spender on defense, but it has reduced its commitment to peace-building initiatives. (iStock/guvendemir)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A new report says that military budgets continue to spiral upward, but global spending on peace initiatives is already low and is further endangered by domestic politics.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ellen K. Boegel
We may not treat those who live on a park bench and Park Avenue as equals, but the Constitution reminds us that we should.
FaithDispatches
Melissa Vida
Most of what we know about saints—from the most beloved to the most obscure—comes from the little-known Bollandist Society.
“No more dictatorship” is the message of this walkout against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 30. Doctors in scrubs, businessmen in suits and construction workers in jeans gathered to demand that Maduro step down in a demonstration organized by the nation's reinvigorated opposition. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Mexico's call for a summit is the latest twist in a crisis that continues to divide the world after Venezuela’s embattled socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, was sworn in for a second term.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis waves during an inauguration ceremony with his wife Casey and son Mason on Jan. 8, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kate Stein
Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned cautious praise from environmental groups who say the commitment is a substantive step forward on water quality issues and underlying Everglades restoration challenges.