In the 1930s, the Soviet Union engineered the Holodomor in Ukraine, starving a population residing in some of the most fertile land in Europe. Unrealistic grain quotas were imposed on Ukraine to power the rapid industrialization Stalin sought, draini...
One of Puerto Rico’s most sensitive ecological corridors will soon be taken over by a proposed $2.6 billion luxury tourism and residential megaproject. Esencia, involving 1,504 acres of luxury real estate, will be constructed in Boquerón, in the i...
“Nothing brings the people of the [Indian] subcontinent together more than our love for Cricket,” declared former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking to the Indian Parliament about his belief in “cricket diplomacy” as a key cog in ...
In a historic ruling this past February, Guatemalan courts convicted a former paramilitary and a retired army officer of committing rape and murder and holding sexual slaves during the country’s 1960–1996 civil war. Amongst other charges, the two...
In a historic ruling this past February, Guatemalan courts convicted a former paramilitary and a retired army officer of committing rape and murder and holding sexual slaves during the country’s 1960–1996 civil war. Amongst other charges, the two...
What happens when a country without legal abortion tells women not to get pregnant? This was the question many asked when government officials in El Salvador recently told women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018 as a precaution against the Zika vi...
What happens when a country without legal abortion tells women not to get pregnant? This was the question many asked when government officials in El Salvador recently told women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018 as a precaution against the Zika vi...
On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal facility in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey and within an hour, a confrontation between two rival prison gangs tu...
On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal facility in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey and within an hour, a confrontation between two rival prison gangs tu...
More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in 2004, the current situation in the Western Iraqi city offers a sobering illustration of what American involvement ...
More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in 2004, the current situation in the Western Iraqi city offers a sobering illustration of what American involvement ...
In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the Polish national anthem and the EU anthem on an alternating schedule. These patriotic medleys were a symbolic ...
In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the Polish national anthem and the EU anthem on an alternating schedule. These patriotic medleys were a symbolic ...
South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are in a state of crisis. Communications, transport, mail, water, and electricity delivery are interspersed with crippling labor strikes and breakdowns in aging infrastructure. The state of SOEs in Sout...
South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are in a state of crisis. Communications, transport, mail, water, and electricity delivery are interspersed with crippling labor strikes and breakdowns in aging infrastructure. The state of SOEs in Sout...
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years. But what’s particularly noteworthy is that almost two-thirds of those new arrivals are under the age of ...
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years. But what’s particularly noteworthy is that almost two-thirds of those new arrivals are under the age of ...
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the scene. We like to kill.” Accompanied by the sounds of accordions, guitars, and AK-47s, these are the typical...
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the scene. We like to kill.” Accompanied by the sounds of accordions, guitars, and AK-47s, these are the typical...
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about the war in Syria and the rise of ISIL have captured the international community’s attention while the deadl...
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about the war in Syria and the rise of ISIL have captured the international community’s attention while the deadl...
China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an system in which each citizen’s dang’an, or personal file, served as a womb-to-tomb dossier — comprised of...
China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an system in which each citizen’s dang’an, or personal file, served as a womb-to-tomb dossier — comprised of...
Trying to stop human-caused climate change is like trying to stop a speeding bus; you need to slow it down first. Carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere will linger for hundreds of years, rendering the considerable attention focused on CO2 emission...
Trying to stop human-caused climate change is like trying to stop a speeding bus; you need to slow it down first. Carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere will linger for hundreds of years, rendering the considerable attention focused on CO2 emission...
“Gross National Happiness (GNH) is more important than Gross National Product.” This famous quotation by Bhutan’s Fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuk can be seen printed in the offices of Bhutanese government officials and written in crayon...
“Gross National Happiness (GNH) is more important than Gross National Product.” This famous quotation by Bhutan’s Fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuk can be seen printed in the offices of Bhutanese government officials and written in crayon...