Kate Linthicum

5 Articles

‘It’s hard to see so many kids die.’ How volunteering in Gaza transformed American doctors and nurses

When Texas neurologist Hamid Kadiwala told his parents he was heading to Gaza to volunteer at a hospital…

Mexico’s first female president completes first year with high approval, but challenges loom

Each September, Mexico's president appears before a crowd of tens of thousands in the nation's central square to…

An ICE raid breaks a family — and prompts a wrenching decision

On a hot June night Jesús Cruz at last returned to Kini, the small town in Mexico's Yucatán…

Separated by a border for decades, parents and children are reunited at last

José Antonio Rodríguez held a bouquet of flowers in his trembling hands.It had been nearly a quarter of…

This Mexican city had one of the world’s highest homicide rates — so it fired most of its police

On a sunny spring day last year, a young attorney named Gisela Gaytán kicked off her campaign for…