Sitemap - 2026 - Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Wanted by The Hague, Welcomed in Brussels: Europe's Taliban Problem

What I Experienced Inside Afghanistan As It Fell

The Leading Killer of Pregnant Women in America Isn't What You Think

Who Has the Right? Inside One Surrogate's Fight After Refusing Parents'Abortion Request

They Had the Drug. They Had the Test. The Babies Still Died.

Child Marriage Is Child Rape. Why Has It Been Normalized?

The Body Count Behind the Victory Lap: America's Shadow War in Nigeria

The Birth Crisis No One in Washington Will Fix

The Innocuous Chemicals That Could Kill Your Baby

The Baby Formula Wars: When Science, Law, and Grief Collide

Looking for the Lost

What No Amount of Field Reporting Prepared Me For: The Miracle of Life, Birthing my Second Child

Watching K-Pop Can Get You Killed in North Korea — and It’s About to Get Worse

She Stood at the White House Advocating for Girls. She Won't Say FGM Is Harmful.

Every International Force Has Failed Haiti. Now the UN Has Sent Another One.

AIDS for Minerals: How Washington Turned a Lifeline Into Leverage

Can an Elephant Have Rights? America's Courts Are About to Find Out.

America's Forgotten Hostages: The Americans Languishing in Iran's Most Notorious Prison Barely Mentioned as War Continues

Governments Executed a Record Number of People Last Year. Here's Who.

Why We Call For Our Mothers in Our Final Moments

Can America Strip Citizenship From Sex Offenders, And Should It?

When Girls Are Killed for Refusing to Marry Their Cousins

Britain's Grooming Gang Reckoning Is Finally Here. But Where Is the Justice for 250,000 Girls?

Why Ebola Centers Are Under Attack

The Boys We Left Behind: The Heartbreaking Truth of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan, and America’s Missed Opportunity

What happens to the foreign ISIS brides returning home?

Afghan girls for sale: the buyers nobody talks about

Australia's Most Decorated Soldier Faces Five Murder Charges for War Crimes. The Country is Dividied.

They Fled a War, Crossed a Desert, and Carried a Plant. Saudi Arabia Is Executing Them for It.

Death Without Due Process: America's Undeclared War on the High Seas

What went wrong with Colombia's "peace" deal

Stolen, Renamed, Erased: Russia's War on Ukrainian Children

Hundreds of Children Went to a Government Hospital for Care. They Left With HIV.

The deal was a lie: Big Pharma shook Trump's hand and raised prices anyway

How the Law Allows a Convicted Child Sex Offender To Father a Surrogate Baby: And Have Ordinary Citizens Pay for it

How ICE Built a Surveillance Machine That Watches Everyone — Not Just Immigrants

Mexico's New Terror Problem Has Nothing to Do With Cartels

From Revolution to Ruin: Inside the ELN with a Former Commander

In Honor of Motherhood Before Motherhood

Taking Life Without Killing

What Happens to the Children of Wartime Rape?

The real reason why fentanyl deaths are dropping in America

He Came Back From Papua New Guinea. He Never Really Came Home. She Held the World Together.

The System Didn't Fail Her. It Never Tried.

Justice in Four Days. A War That’s Lasted 17 Years.

ISIS Just Quintupled Its Forces. America Is Too Busy to Notice.

Catholicism and MAGA: The Conflict No One Saw Coming

Outlawing Midwifery: She’s 77 Years Old. She’s Helped Deliver 1,200 Babies. Nebraska Wants to Put Her in Prison.

How the Iranian Regime is Still Standing

The World Cup Is Coming. So Are the Traffickers.

False Jobs, Real Rifles: Moscow's Coercive Recruitment Death Trap for Desperate Migrants

Taliban Drops Bombshell Law: What it Means

Who benefits financially from ICE's sprawling private prison system on taxpayer's dime?

Dropping Bombs on Children Is Not Normal. Stop Pretending It Is.

Putin Is the Quiet Winner of America's Middle East War

Why is colorectal cancer killing so many young Americans?

Shadows of a Failed Coup: The Unrelenting Agony of a Venezuelan Family After Operation Gideon

Colorado lawmakers kill mandatory prison bill for child rapists, citing judicial discretion and cost

Thousands of Women Still Trapped in Colombia's Sex Trade After Maduro's Fall

A Young Woman Was Just Euthanized. The Men Who Broke Her Were Never Named.

Israeli Spy or Survivor? The Strange Disappearance of Iran's Leading Spymaster

Lessons from My Greatest Spiritual Teacher

Digital Narcos: Inside the Cartel Propaganda Filling Teen Feeds Across the Americas

Five of my Best Writing Tips

What El Mencho's Death Just Uncovered About Iran's Secret Foothold in America

Corruption's Empire: From Water-Filled Missiles to Sold Ranks... What is going in China's military

Motherhood, Wars and the Weight We Carry

The Great Inversion: How a Global Fertility Collapse Is Rewriting the Future of Nations

The Invisible American Prisoner: Taliban Refuses to Acknowledge U.S. Hostage

Iran’s Shadow War Comes to Austin: Are We Ready for What’s Next?

When "Precision" Warfare Fails: The Unforgivable Cost of Targeting a School

Inside the "War Economy": How Putin Doubled Weapon Production While Under Total Blockade

The Iran War May Come Down to One Brutal Question: Who Runs Out of Missiles First?

The Predator in the Nursery: Surrogacy’s Missing Guardrails

The Case for War With Iran Is Real. So Is the Case Against It. My Complicated Reckoning With the Iran War.

The undisclosed threat that Cuba poses

Leaked Secrets, Lost Titles: Mandelson Joins Notorious Epstein Roster as Europe Demands Justice, America Dodges

Forgotten Behind Bars: Syrians Trapped in Lebanon’s Prisons After Assad’s Fall

What happens to the Iran-backed, Iraqi militias now?

Massacres, Media Blackouts, and Mass Graves: Iran's Machinery of Murder Before the Missiles Struck

Has the United Nations Lost Its Way; Or Are We Forgetting What It Still Gets Right?

How to find joy in the madness of the world

Why Even Maternal Health Experts Aren’t Safe from America’s Birth Crisis

Do Oil Sanctions Really Work?

Pregnant Mom Stabbed 70 Times, Marine Vet Shot — The Dark Side of Facebook Marketplace Meets

Why U.S. Officials Are Scrambling to Thwart Iran's Bold New Spy Network

The U.S. Child Marriage Loophole: Why Reform Still Faces Fierce Resistance

The Gitmo Prisoners Who Become Millionaires

Beyond the Headaches: What really happened with 'Havana Syndrome'?

The Sahel: Ground Zero for Global Terror's New Wave

Inside China’s Shadowy Surrogacy Pipeline to American Citizenship

Tracking the Drug Money Behind Hezbollah’s Arsenal

Trump’s $1.6 Billion Kenya Bet: A New Aid Model Built After USAID Was Destroyed

Starving for Power: While Iranians Can’t Afford Bread, Their Leader Sits on a $95 Billion Goldmine

Why We Rage Against Predators But Shrug at Airstrikes

Sudan Is Using Chemical Weapons—and No One Is Stopping It

How Pakistan suddenly got so close to Trump

Ask Me Anything: Minneapolis to the Middle East, Power, War, and the Stories Left in the Dark

A Young Fighter's Body, a Jeering Crowd, and a Broken Promise: Syria’s Painful Week

Is ICE Really Arresting Violent Criminals? Here's the real deal.

How does the Taliban really make its money to run a country?

Why Trump backed down on threats to strike the Iranian regime

How ‘Big’ Infant Formula Giants Lobby Against Paid Maternity Leave

What happened to "the village?" The fascinating history of why extended western families, unlike the rest of the world, no longer live together

Why the military isn't defecting from the Iranian regime, yet

Big Guns, Bigger Questions: Are Trump’s Battleships Already Outdated?

Will Trump Really Act Against the Iranian Regime?

A Children’s Cancer Bill Had 99 Votes — Then Bernie Sanders Stopped It

Life in Caracas After Maduro’s Fall

Trump’s Maduro Raid Topples a Dictator, Raises New Questions

A Two-Front Nuclear Challenge Emerges — and U.S. Strategy Isn’t Built for It

What Does “America First” Really Mean?

Six Years After the Soleimani Strike, a Reality Check on the Quds Force