Poverty
Pulitzer Center grantee Shiho Fukada has been covering Japan's economic crisis and its struggling workers.
On the eve of an unimaginably long walk one question nagged journalist Paul Salopek: Should he take his house keys?
Pulitzer Center grantee Louie Palu is interviewed by Manual Oreste of Animal Politico.
Fake and substandard medications threaten the fight against malaria in the Lake Victoria Basin, but attitudes can be just as problematic.
The uprising against monarchy grows more intense, while largely ignored by Western media. Real News Network's Paul Jay interviews journalist Reese Erlich about the situation on the ground.
Micah Albert's picture of women scavenging refuse from a landfill in Dandora, Kenya, a winner in the People category of the National Geographic Photo Contest.
Long waits and too few providers are consigning more and more women to illegal abortions.
In South Africa, a country with one of the most permissive abortion-access laws in the world, many women find it is easier—and faster—to get an illegal abortion instead.
As the drug war continues, photographer Louie Palu documents those caught in the middle.
Pakistan is home to more out-of-school children than almost any country in the world. And there's more than just the Taliban keeping the country’s young people from an education.
Bolsa Familia, the Brazilian government's much-admired social welfare program, is constantly being reworked and readjusted to make it more effective. Henrique Luis Paiva explains how they do it.
The Pulitzer Center staff share their favorite photos from 2012.
The role of women is closely tied to water in Sierra Leone. A look at the aid response and urban infrastructure in the aftermath of the cholera outbreak in Freetown.