Newsletter Archive

More than half of Germans support curbs on Muslim immigration. That’s in a country that took in 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, about 40 percent of whom came from Syria. In Dresden, VOA meets up with a Syrian refugee who is looking for work while adjusting to life in a country where he doesn’t always feel welcome.

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump explicitly condemned anti-Semitism and the spike in anti-Jewish incidents since his inauguration. With the number of anti-Muslim hate groups in the U.S. nearly tripling during the past year, Muslims hope the president will also condemn religiously motivated crimes against Muslims. But they’re not holding their breath.

Republican members of Congress are getting an earful at the town hall meetings they’re holding in their home districts. While some in the GOP dismiss the raucous protesters as liberal activists, recent history suggests elected officials ignore constituent feedback at their own political peril.

The Kansas killing of an engineer from India is prompting strong reaction in the news and on social media in the South Asian nation. U.S. authorities are investigating the shooting as a possible hate crime. In India, VOA speaks with Indians and Indian-Americans, some of whom are wary of coming to the United States in light of recent anti-immigrant rhetoric.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: Many men and women have a thirst for power, but that was not the case with George Washington, America’s first president. The famous general, who led the American colonists to freedom from British rule, had no interest in being president. He wanted to retire from public service and return home to his Virginia farm. Here’s what else you might not know about President George Washington.