Stories from Carol Hills
Senior Producer and host.
Carol Hills was part of the original team that created and launched "The World" in 1996. Currently, she is a producer, occasional reporter and host who proudly calls herself a generalist. Carol is interested in everything from US policy options in Afghanistan to the rise in pet ownership in the Middle East. She also has an interest in global humor (yes, sometimes it actually does translate) and produces a weekly narrated slideshow of political cartoons from around the globe.
Over the years, Carol has reported from Cuba, Nigeria, and Vietnam. She was a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2001-2002 and has a master's degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Carol got her journalistic start in Boston on "The Ten O’Clock News" with Christopher Lydon.
Recent Stories
Arts
The World
November 10, 2017
Cartoonist Angel Boligán left Cuba 25 years ago but the influences of his upbringing still come through in his drawings.
Conflict
The World
November 02, 2017
About 600 asylum-seekers in an Australian offshore detention camp on Papua New Guinea are hunkering down and refusing to leave. The power has been cut off, there's no air conditioning and food is running out.
Books
The World
October 12, 2017
Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen lives the insider-outsider life of a refugee. His fictional depictions of the effects of displacement has earned him a MacArthur "genius grant."
Culture
The World
October 04, 2017
The French magazine Charlie Hebdo describes itself as a punch in the face. So get ready America, because Charlie Hebdo is coming to town, online and in English.
Arts
The World
September 28, 2017
Equatorial Guinea is both repressive and oil rich but almost everyone there is poor. A cartoonist uses his drawings to point the finger at the country's long-time dictator. But now he's been arrested.
Global Politics
The World
September 08, 2017
The US agreed to resettle refugees stuck in an Australian-run offshore detention facility. But with the camp slated to be shut down in late October, not a single refugee has been approved.
Media
The World
July 28, 2017
Some have been freed and some are still in jail in a controversial trial of journalists from Turkey's oldest and most respected independent newspaper.
Media
The World
June 13, 2017
Will cow dung really help heal a burn? No! Kids in Uganda learn how to assess health claims with the help of comics.
Arts
The World
June 02, 2017
President Trump thought pulling out of the Paris climate accord would make other countries stop laughing at America. It didn't work.
Global Politics
The World
May 21, 2017
Donald Trump gets a lot of attention for what he says and how he says it. Try putting all those quips and tweets through a Russian language filter and seeing what comes out.
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