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The world as we knew it is undergoing a rapid transformation…so what's next? Welcome to WorldAffairs, your guide to a changing world. We give you the context you need to navigate across bord...
A church in decline tries to reinvent itself, and its young members struggle with how to talk about Christianity. The Final Service is writt...
Julian Deshazier is a rapper and a pastor. That sounds like it would be appealing to kids from his old neighborhood on the South Side. But g...
Christian Allyn is proud to be Lithuanian. So when he found out that the archbishop was going to close his Lithuanian church in Waterbury, C...
This is the first chapter in a four-part series about church closures in America. Lorraine Pacheco is the caretaker for a tiny church in an...

Notice anything about churches in America? In a lot of place they're boarded up. Converted to some other use. Or just abandoned. Reporters M...

One theme was consistent throughout this election year: the assertion that democracy was under threat. Throughout the year, Jonathan Rauch w...

In less than three weeks, Donald Trump will be back in the White House, and we’re waiting to see what he will tackle on Day One. On the camp...

100,000, that’s the estimated number of Protestant churches that will close in the U.S… not by 2050, but five years from now. What some scho...

When bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, it makes infections harder to treat. This...

Third party candidate, Robert Kennedy, Jr., played an out-sized role in the 2024 presidential election. Trump said Kennedy would have “a big...

One issue where President-elect Trump hammered home the differences between his plans and those of Kamala Harris was immigration. For a deca...

Donald Trump has successfully defied the political odds for almost a decade – largely because of his unpredictability on the campaign trail....

Diversity has often been seen as the United States’ defining strength – but today, some Americans see it as a threat. And this isn’t new. Th...

In 2020, Latinos became the second largest ethnic voting group in the United States, and the fastest-growing segment of the swing states in...

According to Steve Schmidt, if you want to understand how the Democrats failed against Donald Trump in 2024, then you have to go back to Joe...

Election Day is over, and the results are clear: former president Donald Trump resoundingly defeated vice president Kamala Harris. We don’t...

We’ve finally reached November 5th, Election Day in the US, and a majority of Americans remain deeply pessimistic about the state of the nat...

Donald Trump’s anti-establishment message has galvanized tech leaders across the US, including in former Democratic Party stronghold, Silico...

During the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump's campaign has been fueled by some surprising supporters… leaders in big tech. According to...

We're entering the final days of the 2024 presidential election, but a lot can change in a few weeks. Historically, several presidential con...

Refugees in California are generally protected from federal deportation under sanctuary and safe haven laws, unless they've been incarcerate...

Immigration is once again a political football in the lead up to the 2024 Presidential Election, and while Congress stalled to address compr...

We're entering the final days of the 2024 presidential election, but a lot can change in a few weeks. Historically, several presidential con...

Monday, October 7, 2024 marks the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israeli territory. For a while, Israel's response to the violence...

After the two recent assassination attempts on former president Donald Trump, it’s clear the United States has a problem with political viol...

The recent assassination attempts on former president Donald Trump were surreal for many. It's been almost a half-century since a US preside...

Kamala Harris holds a national lead of three percentage points over Donald Trump. And as the polls following her recent debate performance c...

Anne Applebaum argues that autocracy is spreading to democratic states, and the reason why is that illiberalism is good international busine...

In August, Ukrainian troops swept into Russia's Kursk region, and seized over 500 square miles of Russian territory. It’s the first time tha...

Immigrants to America have always faced resistance, and have always—over time—assimilated and become vital parts of America. But in a politi...

In May, Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, presented a sprawling “road map” for regulating artificial intelligence. But tech experts hav...

Earlier this century, reports indicated a little alcohol might even improve health. Moderation was the watchword. Those reports have been ov...

For the most part, the world has gone back to normal. We’re getting on planes… going to concerts… but many Americans haven’t changed their p...

President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21, and in the few weeks since, Vice President Kamala Harris has garne...

Ecuadorian journalist Jorge Imbaquingo says that his country used to be, “an island of peace.” But now it’s caught in the middle of Latin Am...

Last August, Ecuador passed a historic referendum that was more than a decade in the making. Oil accounts for roughly a third of the country...

Ray Suarez sits down with Dr. Timothy Naftali, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s SIPA, to examine Biden’s foreign policy lega...

A few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the US Congress, and he showed no signal that his government is open...

Donald Trump’s anti-establishment message has galvanized tech leaders across the US, including in former Democratic Party stronghold, Silico...

Since Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris raised hundreds of millions in small dollar donations. Harris has rece...

The surprising success of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics gave Vladimir Putin the political capital to invade Crimea, and it was...

It's been a wild few weeks in US news... but remember the Olympics? After COVID-19 threw a curveball in Tokyo, the Olympic Games are back. S...

A gunman just tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump weeks after he was convicted of election interference… Joe Biden’s campaign...

For generations, a nuclear war has been assumed to be so horrible that no one has used these weapons since 1945. But what have we done in th...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just signed a mutual defense deal that feels a lot more like 1964 than...

On June 18th, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unprecedented trip to Pyongyang. It was the first time he’d set foot inside North Kor...

On June 9th, Europe's European Union members voted for their next parliament. The election tends to be a practical and mostly predictable af...

The recent spate of violence in Sub-Saharan Africa is centuries in the making, and finding solutions isn’t easy. And when we talk about lift...

The Democratic Republic of Congo sits just south of the so-called “coup belt” in Africa – an area stretching across the entire continent, fr...

In May, Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, presented a sprawling “road map” for regulating artificial intelligence. The report called fo...