From Honduras to Mexico and back, migrant caravaners’ quest for both immediate safety and some kind of future for their families has put them in the media spotlight, but too often the coverage plays into the political theatrics that burden their fates and compounds their miseries, writes Ada Trillo.

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones, social media, and an abundance of potential evidence in the form of online videos, photos, and other posts, over the past decade the Human Rights Center has turned its focus to exploring how this open source material could be used to advance international justice, write Alexa Koenig and Lindsay Freeman.

The United Nations and countries such as South Africa, Belgium, Scotland, and France have long recognized the right to adequate housing, and it is time the United States does so as well, writes Justin DeWaele.

Any final outcome from the peace talks between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan must honor the sacrifices of Americans and Afghans, as well as the integrity of the Afghan constitution, the ideal of representative government, and the belief that all Afghans deserve equal consideration and treatment under the law, writes Haroon Azar.

The next president of the United States must help to make the country part of the solution, and not continue to have the United States be part of the problem when it comes to the pandemic, writes Thomas Coates.

A change of U.S. administration would bring some changes of emphasis, style, and approach to the U.S.-China relationship, but the agenda and goals will be very similar regardless of who occupies the White House, writes Dane Chamorro.

On November 3, Angelenos and Californians will have the opportunity to weigh in on a number of issues that have “local-to-global” implications. Justin Chapman explores how some of these state and county ballot measures relate to issues that other countries are also grappling with, presented as part of our voter initiative, 2020 Election: A Local-to-Global Opportunity.

Heightened safety precautions are needed in a pandemic more than ever, writes Seth Freeman.

Nonprofits and the many others like them are struggling with a tsunami of needs and demands in the communities they serve—including the need to capitalize on this moment when our nation is finally waking up to the sacrifices and the contributions of front-line workers, writes Joe Lumarda.

To build a better, more democratic, more equitable world after the pandemic, the United States could start by helping refugees, rather than what it can do by merely seeking its own benefit, write Kemal Kirişci and Sam Denney.