It suspended her for expressing an opinion on a partisan issue, which — whether you agree with the rule or not — she clearly did. By Jesse Singal.

Seventy years after the mass internment of Japanese Americans was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the ugly ideas at the core of its decision are resurfacing. By Matt Ford.

A Syrian family that fled the war-torn country in 2011 was welcomed Wednesday to its new home in Connecticut after Indiana officials objected to plans for the refugees to resettle in their state.

Can Marshall Islanders whose lives are tied to the sea maintain their culture in Oklahoma? By Krista Langlois.

Living in transition, between cultures, we are discovering who we are. By Pamela Weintraub.

A popular talk show the possibility of a coup against the German chancellor after her own party made implicit criticisms of her policy

In recent years, the market for passports and citizenship has become massive. One of the poorest nations in the world tried to cash in. Was this an ingenious way to raise money or simply a case of a country selling its soul? By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Women ruled out of order by Speaker for demanding prime minister John Key apologise for accusing opposition of ‘backing the rapists.’ By Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Facing death, former military translators are walking to Europe with other refugees. By Kevin Knodell.

In 2009, Anil Kumar was arrested for his role in a lucrative insider-trading ring. That was not his biggest crime. By Nilita Vachani.

For most of US history no one much cared that Latinos were entering the country and driving the economy of the south-west. In the 1920s the US introduced restrictive immigration laws but it didn’t have Latinos in mind: the perceived dangers were ‘inassimilable’ Italians and Eastern European Jews… By Tom Stevenson.

At 11, he is living in the ruins of his former life [in the separatist area of eastern Ukraine]. By Lynsey Addario.

At 12, she has lived one-quarter of her life in a debilitating state of suspension as a Syrian refugee in Lebanon. By Susan Dominus.

Germany's opposition parties have criticized a deal forged by coalition partners to control migration flows in Germany, saying it produces "little concrete action." Germany has struggled to cope with the influx.

This bucolic, one-street settlement of handsome redbrick farmhouses may for the moment have many more cows than people, but next week it will become one of the fastest growing places in Europe. Not that anyone in Sumte is very excited about it. In early October, the district government informed Sumte’s mayor, Christian Fabel, by email that his village of 102 people just over the border in what was once Communist East Germany would take in 1,000 asylum seekers.

Robert Ménard founded Reporters Without Borders, but has since been criticized by his former colleagues for assailing the growing North African culture in his city, Béziers. By Adam Nossiter.

Since the summer, the makeshift Jungle has quadrupled in size - it is now home to 6,000 desperate people. They are living in slum conditions, surviving on charity handouts and risking their lives under the wheels of trains. Now winter is coming… By Amelia Gentleman.

With nearly 400,000 people arriving illegally in Greece this year, Syrian refugee smugglers are doing well. By Loubna Mrie and Miguel Winograd.

When he fled the war in Syria, Abdullah Waez dreamed of a new life in Sweden. Waez and 52 other asylum seekers were shocked when migration officials brought them by bus to their new accommodation on Sunday: a cluster of red wooden cabins in a forest in the village of Limedsforsen, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of Stockholm.

One refugee’s epic escape from Syria. By Nicholas Schmidle.