Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Tally of a Tragedy
Three horrific hours, 129 lives, 6.7 million tweets of solidarity: coming to terms with the staggering scale of the Paris attacks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘I Didn’t Expect Another Attack to Happen Again’
As Parisians pick up the pieces from Friday's devastating terrorist attack, many are wondering how they can feel safe in their wounded city.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 On the Campaign Trail with Saudi Arabia’s First Women Candidates
Saudi women are running for office in upcoming municipal elections for the first time -- and discovering the rules as they go.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu, Circus Ringmaster of the Israeli Right
The prime minister’s coalition partners have become a headache, and are threatening to upset what he hoped would be a conciliatory trip to Washington.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mythmaking in the New Myanmar
The film was supposed to win Aung San Suu Kyi’s father a place among the 20th century’s great leaders. Instead, it’s a reminder that the country’s story is still being written.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Death of Politics in Sisi’s Egypt
Egyptians are going to the polls to elect their first parliament in over three years — but whichever party wins, the country's strongman-in-chief looks poised to come out on top.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Won’t Bolivia’s Ex-President Watch Sandra Bullock’s New Movie With Me?
A quixotic investigation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan’s Big Night
The Turkish president's party defied the polls, guaranteeing its political dominance for years to come.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Blood On the Ballot
As Turkey heads to parliamentary elections on Sunday, the country’s Kurdish heartland is hoping to defeat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ballot box — even as some young Kurds say a guerrilla war is their only hope against the government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Student Protests Rocking South Africa Are About More Than Tuition
Two decades after the end of apartheid, the country is still riven by inequality and injustice. Students have had enough.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 East Jerusalem After the Storm
Checkpoints. Concrete walls. Heavily armed police. Israel has stopped a deadly wave of terror attacks for now, but Palestinians are still seething.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Honduras’s Aborted Mission for Political Reform
Restive Hondurans fear a historic opportunity for groundbreaking political change is about to pass them by.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Monks, PowerPoint Presentations, and Ethnic Cleansing
Damning new evidence shows the Myanmar government's role in promoting anti-Muslim hatred.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tanzania Set for Tightest Election in History
No matter who wins, this island of stability in East Africa could be headed for chaos.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can This Man Save Yemen?
Vice President Khaled Bahah is trying to push back the Islamic State and make peace with his Houthi rivals. But progress is hard to come by in war-wracked Yemen these days.
