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An untitled piece by Martin Ramírez, (Train and Tunnel). Ramírez used crayons and glued together pieces of paper to make his drawings.

An anonymous psych patient is now acclaimed as a master artist of the immigrant experience

Arts

For years, Mexican artist Martín Ramírez was only known as a psychiatric patient who made drawings. That narrative is changing.

Gyropalettes at the Bailly Lapierre winery

A bubbly secret: the Burgundy wine that rivals its fancier cousin, Champagne

Culture
Students at Valencia Community College

This Florida community college was named the best in the nation in 2011. So, what makes it so successful?

Education
A woman takes a selfie in Beijing, September 2015.

What is China’s online future?

Culture
Tania Bruguera

Cuban artist describes regime’s still-watchful eye

Arts
Dick DeBartolo

After 45 years, Mad Magazine’s Dick DeBartolo still delights in creating comic lunacy

Culture

Dick DeBartolo, Mad Magazine’s “Maddest Writer,” is 68, but still delights in adolescent high-jinks and now has a podcast, called “Giz Wiz, that reaches tens of thousands of people around the world.Dick DeBartolo, Mad Magazine’s “Maddest Writer,” is 68, but still delights in adolescent high-jinks and now has a podcast, called “Giz Wiz, that reaches tens of thousands of people around the world.

Olesya is an ethnic Russian in Crimea. She says she loves Russia, and thinks of it as a big brother to Ukraine. "But now they are violating my rights," she says.

This Ukrainian thought of Russia as a big brother. Until they intervened in Crimea

Conflict & Justice

In Crimea, many ethnic Russians are cheering a return to Russia. But others Crimeans think they’re making a big mistake.In Crimea, many ethnic Russians are cheering a return to Russia. But others Crimeans think they’re making a big mistake.

Januka Rasaeli, a pregnant woman in Nepal

In Nepal, the manual labor doesn’t stop for expectant mothers

Health & Medicine

For farm women in this South Asian nation, pregnancy brings no respite from hard physical labor. What is being done to give them a much-needed rest?

A hostess waits for participants at the Stiletto Run in Constanta, 155 miles east of Bucharest

In one Colombian town, women say no sex until their demands are met

Development & Education

Women in a small town in southwestern Colombia have stopped having sex with their significant others to protest the terrible condition of a road that connects their town to the rest of Colombia. The campaign, dubbed the “crossed legs movement,” seems to be working.

Is studying abroad a waste of time or a key ingredient for baking a global citizen?

Development & Education

Study abroad programs have ballooned in the last few decades, with colleges and universities offering it as a defining experience for emerging global citizens. But is it mainly play time for the well-off and overrated as a mind-broadening rite of passage?