(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) A woman takes a moment of prayer at the Sikh Cultural Society of Queens, New York. With the gunman shot dead, it remains unclear if the mass shooting at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a [...]

For those stateside, it’s been impossible this summer to ignore one sweaty fact-of-life: It’s hot. Brutally hot. It seems like we’re right back where we left off last summer — all 50 states saw record highs in July 2011 — [...]

Born 100 years ago this month in Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie wrote one of the most iconic American folk songs ever, “This Land is Your Land.” Known as the “Dust Bowl Troubadour,” Guthrie’s legend remains as prolific and influential as ever. [...]

On Monday, May 21, in Chicago, NATO held its largest summit in over six decades. Led by members of the group Afghans for Peace, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, thousands of people took to the street on Sunday [...]

Soe Than WIN/AFP/Getty Images After two decades of democratic struggle, many of which under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi has been elected by the people of Myanmar (Burma) to hold a seat in parliament. As leader of the National [...]

The Western Sahara does not often frequent our thoughts, but in this mysterious desert, there lives a group of exiles under military occupation. The Sahara International Film Festival, or FiSahara, might be the world’s only film exhibition held in a [...]