America

Web Exclusive: Claude Chabrol

Arts, Culture & Media

We also had the privilege to hear from the legendary director Claude Chabrol, a founder of the French New Wave. Mr. Chabrol shared his feelings of respect, and of wariness, for American culture. Audio coming soon.

A New National Anthem

Arts, Culture & Media

Does the South Even Need Its Own Flag?

Arts, Culture & Media
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display at the company’s headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An EPA penalty of $15 million for selling emissions defeat devices was decreased by $3 million under the Trump administration in December 2017.

Environmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades

Global Politics
A carnival model of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 2009.

‘Why are Americans so fat?’ And other questions Russians have about us.

Media
Burmese refugees Thailand

The biggest group of current refugees in the US? Christians from Myanmar.

Conflict

Trump’s anti-refugee push has hidden victims.

Prisoner working.

Forget hunger strikes. What prisons fear more? Labor strikes.

Business

In prisons across the country, incarcerated people are paid as little as 15 to 45 cents an hour. Even worse, in Texas, the minimum wage for a prisoner starts at zero.

The percentage of computer science bachelor's degrees conferred to women has been dropping since mid-1980s.

Women will be extinct in the computer science world if this trend continues

Education

Three charts that show you how women have been regressing in the study of computer science since the mid-1980s. In 2013, only two out of 10 computer science bachelor’s degrees were conferred to women.

The founder of Torah Animal World in Borough Park, Brooklyn, says the museum gets 3,000 visitors a week.

This museum is devoted only to animals mentioned in the Bible

Belief

Torah Animal World is dedicated to bringing the Bible to life — sort of. It’s populated with hundreds of taxidermied creatures.

Ali Nasri Shamas holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle outside his hashish factory in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Shamas says the region's hash growers are ready to turn their weapons against any Islamic militants crossing the border from Syria.

Lebanon’s drug lords say they’re ready to join the fight against ISIS

Conflict

Hashish growers in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley have built up big arsenals to fight off the country’s army. Now the drug lords say they’re ready to turn their weapons against Islamic militants spilling over the border from Syria.