Amanda Taub
Former Vox staff
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Mexico has been rocked by protests after 43 students protesters were kidnapped, possibly by a local drug cartel. This moving video shows the students as individual people, driving home the pain of their loss.


The war on drugs is causing horrifying atrocities in Central America. That needs to end.


Here’s the most basic information you need to know to make sense of CAR’s current human rights crisis.


Many of the women who travel to the UAE to become domestic workers are horribly abused by their employers and recruiting agents.


Dr. Craig Spencer, a physician in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients overseas, has tested positive for Ebola.


The Ottawa shooter was from Quebec, but we don’t assume he was motivated by Quebecois radicalism. Why do we treat his Muslim faith differently?


Fox News and GOP congressmen are warning that terrorists could weaponize Ebola. Here’s how things might go if the terrorists took them seriously.


The US treated a donkey better than it treated the people who risked their lives to help US troops.


This map shows just a fraction of the combat-related deaths in Baghdad — but they still blot out much of the city.


Australian Prime Minister Tony “I’m a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard” Abbott ran into some trouble with a spicy chicken wing on Thursday.