Claire McCartney

GlobalPost

Claire McCartney is a web producer at GlobalPost and a recent graduate of Tufts University, where she studied psychology and mass communications. Before interning with GlobalPost, Claire worked at Frontline PBS, focusing on social media as a platform for audience engagement. In 2012, Claire participated in the CIEE Communications and New Media Journalism program in Seville, Spain where she investigated a radio program broadcast out of a penitentiary psychiatric hospital. She was also an editor at Tufts' student magazine, the Tufts Observer.

On National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a crisis continues

July 30, 2016Politics

A look at some of the programs trying to stem the AIDS epidemic among African-Americans.

Emergency contraception use more than doubles

July 30, 2016Politics

Q&A: Should mental health be part of the gun control debate?

July 30, 2016Politics

Five interesting ways people are fighting HIV around the world

July 30, 2016Politics

Restrictions on religion have increased globally since Arab Spring

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Atheism: Study finds six ways to disbelieve

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Researchers developed six specific categories of atheists, whose numbers are on the rise globally.

Sikh leaders advise UK temples to halt all weddings in response to same-sex marriage law

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Sikh leaders have advised temples in the United Kingdom to forfeit their marriage licenses under new same-sex marriage legislation.

Britain’s Supreme Court: Is Scientology a ‘real’ religion?

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

A new case in Britain’s highest court has judges debating the metaphysical merits of the famously controversial belief system.

US State Department embraces religion with new office

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

State seeks to reach out to global religious leaders and communities through the creation of a new faith-focused office.

Boko Haram suspected in new attacks on Nigerian mosques

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Violence in Nigeria continues to take lives as the government’s military battles extremist Islamic group Boko Haram. What’s behind the violence?