Newsletter Archive

VIDEO: U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than one-third of the residents of Detroit, Michigan, live below the poverty line, and more than half of children younger than 18 don’t have enough to eat. One woman is trying to make a difference, spending her own money and founding a nonprofit to feed the hungry.

VIDEO: This week on Plugged In, we remember some of the news makers we lost in 2018, including the 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush; Sen. John McCain; the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin; America’s Pastor, Rev. Billy Graham; and other leaders and personalities from around the world. Our guests include Presidential historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

VIDEO: President Donald Trump fleshed out his “America First” political doctrine in 2018 with policies aimed at shaking up institutions of the post-World War II world order. VOA  takes a look on how U.S. foreign policy is shifting under Trump.

There is a sense of excitement in India’s Patuka village — adults and children look curiously as signs with the names of daughters are hammered outside several homes. It is a novelty in a village where patriarchal mindsets have long held sway.

China and Vietnam invite obvious comparisons because they each are ruled by a single, communist party; they both put curbs on the internet and internet companies; and they have high, export-led economic growth after beginning privatization in the 1980s. But in Vietnam it is more common to see foreign partners make progress in their efforts to solve bilateral disagreements, and that is the critical difference.