Courtney E Martin

For Id­jwi, an is­land on the Rwan­da-DRC bor­der, iso­la­tion has been a gift.

As the US heads to­wards po­lit­i­cal grid­lock, frus­trat­ed cit­i­zens turn to each oth­er to bridge the par­ti­san di­vide.

Wealthy donors and those to whom they give of­ten op­er­ate on two dif­fer­ent planes of re­al­i­ty that rarely col­lide.

Thomas left be­hind a lega­cy that chal­lenges the per­cep­tion of how women in me­dia should act.

One in three – more than one bil­lion – women and girls on the plan­et are beat­en or raped dur­ing their life­time.

Many young and promis­ing Ti­betans are re­ly­ing on an­cient fire rather than mod­ern so­cial me­dia to ex­press their out­rage.