One of our producers, Nadia Reiman, talked to officials who work in the asylum and refugee branches at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Russian forces have besieged the town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. Shelling is constant.

Saddam Sayyaleh’s job right now is trying to get trucks filled with aid into Gaza and he knows it’s nowhere close to what’s actually needed.

Alex Blumberg tells the true story of Jerry Springer's life before he was a talk show host.

Often bypassing logic, the women go to great lengths to construct elaborate stories to make sense of their inexplicable pain. And then, a letter arrives.

One of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.