My parents are French and American. I was born in Belgium. My ancestors are Lebanese, Romanian and Polish. Don’t ask me where I’m from. — Essay by Justin Salhani in Milan, Italy I’m at a language exchange in Milan, Italy. The way it works is I pair up with an Italian native speaker. We talk in Italian for a few minutes and then we switch to English. …

A letter from the Venezuela-Colombia border — Story by Johan González in San Antonio, Venezuela The first stop the bus made on its way to Táchira state, in western Venezuela, was in a rural settlement called La Pedrera. We parked at a small commercial building to eat. On one of the walls of the place where we…

For many Venezuelans, migration is the only way to survive. But their arrival hasn’t always been welcome. — By Paolo Cravero Paolo Cravero is the Communications Officer of Franciscans International, a human rights NGO based in New York and Geneva. Join their newsletter. On the morning of Dec. 9, Roberta Alvim was sitting in her office when she received a call from a friend, João Carlos Jarochinski Silva.

France and the Netherlands rejected far-right governments. But a different kind of populism — nativistic and no less bombastic — is gaining steam in Italy. — By Justin Salhani On July 1, 2014, the Italian comedian Giuseppe ‘Beppe’ Grillo spoke to European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. About a month earlier, 17 disciples of his populist, Euro-skeptic movement, known locally as M5S, had been elected to represent Italy in the E.U., …

In the U.S., immigrants who arrived as children haven’t been targeted for deportation. But that could change. By J. Malcolm Garcia Billie and Fabian sit at a round table in Billie’s kitchen thinking out loud. Considering options. It’s evening. Pitch black, with no stars. It might rain. A dog barks. …

A ‘nothing is true and everything is possible’ media strategy has kept Putin in power. Trump is following his example. By Cameron Hood The idea that news could be purposely fake has shocked a lot of Americans. …