Selestine Kemoli fled to the Kenyan Embassy in Riyadh in 2020, terrified and desperate. Ms. Kemoli had been working in Saudi Arabia as a maid. Like many East Africans in her situation, she said, she was being abused. She told…
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Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly
President Trump has been less than subtle in his insistence that the United States will “get” Greenland one way or another, reiterating on Friday that the United States cannot “live without it.” By the time he uttered those words in…
Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Domestic Worker Abuse in Saudi Arabia
In most countries, working as a housekeeper or nanny is a relatively safe profession. Yet as we traveled across Kenya and Uganda, from crowded and poor urban neighborhoods to far-flung farming villages, we heard many variations on the same horror…
Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Domestic Worker Abuse in Saudi Arabia
In most countries, working as a housekeeper or nanny is a relatively safe profession. Yet as we traveled across Kenya and Uganda, from crowded and poor urban neighborhoods to far-flung farming villages, we heard many variations on the same horror…
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
“What was once a kind of erotic, playful love poem,” Professor Shapiro said, had “been repurposed to speak to people in the midst of a civil war — in which their loved ones are fighting and dying.” Consider the opening…
Amid Regional Diplomatic Furor, Sudan’s Paramilitaries Forge a Rival Government
The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group fighting Sudan’s military in the country’s calamitous civil war, signed a political charter with its allies late Saturday that aimed to establish a parallel Sudanese government in areas under their control. The paramilitaries…