What we’ve been up to — It has been over a month since we announced nearby, and in that time we’ve heard from more than two dozen people who are or have been in long-distance relationships. …

Exploring the dynamics of long-distance relationships — Long distance relationships are unique; two people in different places maintaining their love and affection for each other without regular meetups. …

With the future of DACA in flux, black Dreamers in New York face race and immigration head on. Nourou Gaiya was in class when he heard the news. The Lehman College sophomore saw a notification that the New York Times was live on YouTube, and suspected what the story might…

Interview with Nushin Rashidian, author and research fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Question — One thing we’ve become more aware of is the role of platforms like Facebook in hosting what we now know as “Fake News.” Because of how ubiquitous this information is on Facebook…

How gentrification pushed a West African community out of its home By Ashley Okwuosa and Madeleine Ayer The stretch of blocks that make up Little Senegal on 116th Street in Central Harlem is becoming less and less recognizable to the West African immigrants who migrated there over 30 years ago…

The nation’s 10 percent economic growth is colliding with people who live on trash heaps. For over 50 years, waste pickers have frequented the Koshe landfill, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, to rummage for food and recyclable goods to sell. Over 300 people have made makeshift homes out of…

With 20 million people facing famine, the international response could be characterized as indifferent — LAGOS, Nigeria The U.N. is racing to raise over $4.4 billion by the end of March to avert more deaths across Africa and the Middle East as more than 20 million people face severe food shortages. While people in Somalia, Yemen and northeastern Nigeria are going without food, nowhere has…

A recent Amnesty International report documents 64 cases of repression at the hands of what are essentially thought police. — Last summer in Thailand was the height of campaigning for a constitutional referendum, which, if passed, would enshrine the military’s hand in a new civilian government. But a visible opposition argued that the generals, who took power in a 2014 coup, were forcing through a new constitution that stifled democracy.

A deadly cold snap has already claimed at least four lives as Greece and Europe muddle the response. — Hundreds of asylum seekers in the Balkans and on the Greek islands of Samos, Chios and Lesvos are shivering through winter rains and heavy snowfall in overcrowded refugee camps ill-equipped for a sustained cold snap. Over 700 people, including young children and other vulnerable individuals, remain in unheated tents in…