Laura Reston

@laurareston

John Steinbeck and Robert Capa's 1947 trip through Eastern Europe introduced America to Soviet life. Last year, two journalists retraced their steps.

Under President Rodrigo Duterte, thousands have died at the hands of police or the masked vigilantes who roam Manila's vast slums.

On a remote spit of land in the Bay of Bengal, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fighting for their lives.

Buried beneath the Great Plains lies a decommissioned Air Force control center that was once powerful enough to lay waste to the Soviet Union.

With Trump in the White House, the gun lobby has transformed into a right-wing media outlet.

A look inside the massive immigration enforcement apparatus that Obama built up—and that Trump is now exploiting.

A record number of refugees are braving the deadly voyage from Libya to Italy.

Roughly once a year, the border wall opens to allow a handful of immigrants to reunite with their families on the other side.

Six years after the floods, indigenous Canadians are still homeless.

James Comey isn't the only watchdog casualty in the president's efforts to avoid scrutiny.

The Kremlin's influence campaign goes far beyond Trump's victory. Their latest unsuspecting targets: American conservatives.

After engineers unlocked vast oil reserves in North Dakota, a small town fielded its first football team in almost 30 years.

How Donald Trump betrayed the region—and how Democrats can win it back.

Meet the far-right "think tank" working to legitimize the immigration crackdown.

Even if the president doesn't bring back black sites, his rhetoric is a menace unto itself.

Will Hillary Clinton’s loss discourage a new generation of women from running for office?

Humiliation was the driving force of a presidential election in which the rules of decorum were laid to waste.

In the Obama era, Republicans nearly perfected the art of obstruction. It's an open question whether Democrats can do the same.

If handpicked candidates like Katie McGinty blow this chance to take back the Senate, the party will have only itself to blame.

Jason Kander's Senate campaign in Missouri hearkens back to the Democratic Party's recent past.