Europe’s ubiquitous recycling system for household batteries means virtually none get thrown away. How come the US doesn’t have something similar?

Scenes from our Paris-based correspondent’s epic three-month road trip across these “dizzyingly paradoxical” United States.

As a travel editor, my job is to hopscotch across the globe. When I decided to keep my feet on the ground, I saw it in a whole new way.

The countries with the lowest abortion rates have one thing in common: access to safe, affordable abortion.

In the Bavarian village where I was raised, guns are a part of life. Mass shootings are not.

The Games have become an unwieldy, budget-busting affair. Allowing multiple cities — or even countries — to co-host could fix that.

Cities across Canada are canceling Canada Day celebrations to contemplate the country’s darkest chapter. Is this the dawn of more nuanced national holidays?

Life looks a little different these days.

If we can hold up a mirror to ourselves and change, that’s a reason to be cheerful.

Embracing uncertainty may be the survival tactic that gets us through this.

The wins we rack up are meaningful beyond the policies they change — they are bursts of propellant that move a long and grueling struggle onward.

Step one: Cover anti-racism rallies more like women’s marches.

The pandemic is revealing the many ways our lives intersect. Is this an opportunity for us to reimagine what we can be?

If the press can learn from the mistakes it made during the Ebola outbreak, it could become one of our best assets in fighting the current pandemic.

A country that opposes human rights and democracy is also coming up with some smart solutions. Can we emulate the good without endorsing the bad?

Seeing painful events as signs that we’ve lost our way misses the point. The truth is, we are less lost now than when we were comfortable.