Kasra Farahani

When Kate Clanchy began teaching the children of refugees, she sought out those silenced by trauma and loss. Their weekly sessions released a torrent of untold stories.

The red-roofed temple at the top of the hill closed about a decade ago, and now Yoshihiro Shibata can’t even remember its name, though the 54-year-old dairy farmer has lived in this picturesque village all his life. By Julie Makinen.

The military alliance has a clear chain of command. The EU, however, does not. By Jacopo Barigazzi and Florian Eder.

How I learned to embrace Independence Day, America, and bunting. So much bunting. By Stephanie Hallett.

How Canadian hockey moms, poker buddies and neighbors are adopting Syrians, a family at a time. By Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn.

Migrants in Germany committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes in the first quarter of 2016, according to a police report that could raise unease, especially among anti-immigrant groups, about Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal migrant policy. There was a record influx of more than a million migrants into Germany last year and concerns are now widespread about how Europe's largest economy will manage to integrate them and ensure security. The report from the BKA federal police showed that migrants from northern Africa, Georgia and Serbia were disproportionately represented among the suspects.

The number of people fleeing war, violence, and persecution broke records last year, with more than a million migrants crossing into Europe in 2015. This influx is big business—human smugglers made an astonishing $7 billion last year. The occupation has spawned the “fastest-growing criminal market in Europe,” Rob Wainwright, director of European law enforcement agency Europol told a parliamentary hearing in Rome, Italy today (May 4). “The unprecedented...

Welcome to Altar, Sonora, Mexico, the Wal-Mart of human trafficking. By Brian Anderson and Camilo Salas.

The rhetoric of the rapidly growing Alternative for Germany party and its supporters indicates a potentially profound shift in German political culture: it is now possible to be an outspoken nationalist without being associated with—or, for that matter, without having to say anything about—the Nazi past. By Jan-Werner Müller.

An open investigation into the disappearance of 243 men, women and children. Where are they? And why does nobody know?

Emma moved from the Philippines to New York to make a living as a nanny for other people’s children—and hasn’t seen her own in sixteen years. By Rachel Aviv.

The EU has placed its fate in the hands of Turkish President Erdogan. But the man who is to help solve the refugee crisis has recently shown more clearly than ever that he prefers autocracy to democracy. He is the price Europe must pay for failure.

The SPD has lost voters to the left and the right, and needs to get them back fast to avoid becoming irrelevant. By Janosch Delcker.

The E.U.’s crisis – with the post-World War II project to unify Europe spinning apart amid economic stress, refugees and terrorism – can be traced back to E.U./U.S. neo-imperial wars in the Arab world, says Jonathan Marshall. With an introduction by Chuck Spinney.

Frauke Petry, leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, caters to the population’s fears. She refuses to see a correlation between her political agenda and the violence on Germany’s streets. By Caroline Schmitt.

Yikes. By Zack Beauchamp. (Mar. 14)

In 1987, Muhammed Faris became a national hero after going into space with the Soviets. Now living in exile in Turkey, he has a new mission – fighting for his fellow refugees. By Rosie Garthwaite.

Economic stagnation, political stalemate, rising right-wing populism—this has been France’s condition for a decade or more. So has nothing changed since the Charlie Hebdo killings? Yes it has, and not simply because of the Bataclan massacre. By Mark Lilla. (Feb. 10)

The European coalition of the inhumane – contriving to trap refugees in Greece – cannot go on. A humanitarian evacuation plan is urgently needed. By Apostolis Fotiadis.