The Future of Cities: In the aftermath of the most recent attacks in Paris, the writer considers a city wavering between gravity and light. By Roberto Lovato What remained of the blood stains and candle wax on the sidewalk streamed away, propelled by the curtain of...

By Roberto Lovato Watching television news, and reading immigration news on my computer, one journalistic fact is as obvious as it is devastating: the wall has completely obliterated immigration coverage. Studies show that the words “wall,” “border,” and “borders”...

ByRoberto Lovato Ana Luna tells me that, if she listens to the recordings released by ProPublica of 10 Central American children, it will make her “vomitar.” “Just watching the news makes me relive what happened to me in that prison,” says Luna, a 30-year-old mother...

By Roberto Lovato “We just ran over a snake,” says Eduardo Gamboa, as I steer my rental car along the rocky road leading to the Cueva de la Olla cliff dwellings, high in the Sierra Madre mountains. Summer monsoons here often force rattlers out of their normal...

By Roberto Lovato PANCHIMALCO, El Salvador THEIR M-16s at the ready, five police officers stand fortressed behind a 4-foot wall of sandbags protecting their station. More officers and a phalanx of giant orange cones form another defensive wall limiting car and foot...