David Conrad is a freelance journalist and doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. David was a summer Google journalism fellow at The World in 2014.
David Conrad is a freelance journalist and doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. David was a summer Google journalism fellow at The World in 2014.
The doctor who initially called police to report his child abuse suspicions of Purvi Patel is listed as a member of a pro-life medical association. Patel was charged with child neglect and later with killing her fetus, and she was sentenced to 20 consecutive years in prison. This makes her the first woman in the US to be convicted and sentenced fon "feticide" charges for ending her own pregnancy.
Public reaction to violence against women in Turkey tended to involve women's organization alone. That changed over the weekend, as Turkish men — many dressed in miniskirts — protested, alongside women, in Istanbul in the wake of the brutal murder of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan.
In recent weeks, Western media outlets have run pictures of rugs from Pakistan featuring drone images. It's part of a long-standing tradition of "war rugs" featuring designs of the weapons of the day, but no one had spoken to the weavers themselves — until now.
This graphic doesn’t begin to encapsulate the tragic particularities of recent weather events and conflicts around the world, but it brings my commute to work — and hopefully yours — into a bit of perspective.
US immigration courts face major bottlenecks. It's a complex problem, tied to a shortage of judges, underfunding and different enforcement programs in the US used to deter migrants from crossing the US-Mexico border. And on top of all that, data shows that people from Central America and Mexico are less likely to get asylum than others.
How big of a country is Ukraine? Well, flying around it is the same as flying to Springfield, Illinois, because of a crash in Philadelphia. It's that big.
The crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 on July 17 has forced Malaysia Airlines to find a new — safer — route to its destinations in western Europe. The airline tried a few options and seems to have found a less controversial flight path.
A new US-backed Honduran security unit is switching gears: It went from targeting drug smugglers to preventing kids from crossing the Honduran border.
US citizens should “strongly consider not going” to more than one third of Africa, according to current travel warnings issued by the US State Department. So should you take those warnings seriously?
There are so many French-born players at the World Cup that fans of Les Bleus could have chosen between two different full teams. But how do they feel about their players choosing to support different countries?