A hotline to report teachers ratchets up tensions in US schools Teachers expressed confusion about the program and fears that they would be subject to investigations concerning 'inappropriate lessons' feature TJ L'Heureux
Uganda is targeting reproductive rights alongside its ‘anti-gay’ bill Ugandan legislators are pushing to prohibit LGBTQ people from pursuing major life decisions, like having a relationship — or having children dispatch Prudence Nyamishana
Florida's ban on transgender care pushes doctors to leave the state The state needs thousands more healthcare professionals, but restrictions on treating trans patients mean many will choose to practice elsewhere feature Rebekah Robinson
Missouri librarians are risking jail time – for doing their jobs Librarians in Missouri fear prosecution under a new law criminalizing anyone who provides 'sexually explicit material' to students feature Erica Hellerstein
The Vatican is turning its back on Belarus' Catholics Priests are arrested in Belarus for standing up for human rights and opposing the war in Ukraine. The Vatican has stood idly by feature Amanda Coakley
Mexican expats are trumpeting the ruling party's message and getting out the vote Political ‘affinity groups’ aligned with Mexico’s ruling party are amplifying the voices of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and helping them exercise their voting rights feature Vita Dadoo
India's 'cow protectors' are getting away with murder Vigilantes in Haryana are accused of killing two Muslim men for the crime of 'cattle smuggling,' and the authorities may be complicit feature Alishan Jafri
Russia spent years courting the Christian right. With the war in Ukraine, has the alliance faltered? Russia has been a key player in the culture wars for three decades, gaining admiration from conservative Christians for its anti-LGBTQ laws and building cross-border alliances q&a Isobel Cockerell
How Venezuela lost its middle class Ideological purges under Chávez and now Maduro have led to the mass exit of educated professionals feature Tony Frangie Mawad
When India's right wing comes for interfaith marriage ‘Love jihad,’ a right-wing conspiracy theory, is putting the lives of Muslim-Hindu couples at risk feature Zenaira Bakhsh
The UK is sleepwalking into another health crisis The British government’s neglect of science is leaving it unprepared for the next disease outbreak feature Frankie Vetch
America’s culture warriors are going after librarians Librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch feature Erica Hellerstein
When globalization was king and home was elsewhere India was my external identity, Britain my interior one, and Kuwait was a metaphorical suburban bedroom where my fantasies played out. feature Shougat Dasgupta
As Italy’s Meloni plays it moderate, her political lieutenant draws a hard right line Putin-backed traditional values meets neo-fascism as women and LGBTQ people brace for impact in Italy dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Bolsonaro’s policies exacerbated food insecurity in Brazil. He’s unlikely to pay a political price Conservative values and tough-on-crime discourse has found traction, while the issue of hunger has been absent from the election feature Zoe Sullivan
