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Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.
Paulina Villegas and Adriana ZehbrauskasGun ControlFirearms
Our reporting revealed how Mexican criminal groups are relying on teenagers and young adults in border states like Arizona to help supply their weapons.
Paulina VillegasGun ControlDrug Cartels
The columnist David French argues that “we have privileged getting wasted over taking care of people.”
Michelle Cottle, Jamelle Bouie, David French and Vishakha Darbhaaudio-neutral-informativeSex
The failed execution of Christa Pike, which left her clinging to life in Tennessee, was the latest grisly error to take place in an American execution chamber.
Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsCapital PunishmentUnited States Politics and Government
John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of central California’s coastline sits a valley known as the “salad bowl of the world”.Farm workers stoop over neatly lined rows of crops off Highway 101 to harvest more than half of the nation’s supply of lettuce and nearly a third of its strawberries. The soil here is so rich that author John Steinbeck made the Salinas valley the promised land in his literary depictions of people chasing the American dream: immigrants, farm workers, westward-moving hopefuls, hungering for a better life. Continue reading...
Gaya Gupta in Salinas, CaliforniaCaliforniaUS income inequality
Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of electionShortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trump gathered a dozen like-minded Latin American leaders and boasted that rightwing candidates had won all seven presidential elections held in the region since he began his second term.“Everybody I’ve endorsed has won,” the US president said in New York to most of the leaders of the Shield of the Americas, an anti-drug cartel coalition of 15 countries governed by the right or far right. Continue reading...
Tiago Rogero in Rio de JaneiroBrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
The State Department has denied its funding for the next two years, jeopardizing the education of hundreds of female Afghan students.
Elian Peltier, Yaqoob Akbary and Safiullah PadshahColleges and UniversitiesForeign Aid
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