In February 2025, Taiwan’s coast guard noticed something unusual in the Taiwan Strait. A Togolese-flagged cargo ship, the Hong Tai 58, had slowed near a submarine cable route connecting Taiwan to the Penghu Islands. Officers repeatedly attempted to...
Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not Ghana’s emblematic black one. Nevertheless, the ...
In 1947, members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the notorious “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation of humanity’s impending doom. The clock inches forward when climate change accelerates and turns back when wars end; mid...
There’s something haunting South Asian schools: “ghost teachers.” These aren’t the specters of teachers past. They’re fictitious teachers, who exist only on paper to misappropriate education funds, or they’re real teachers who rarely show...
There’s something haunting South Asian schools: “ghost teachers.” These aren’t the specters of teachers past. They’re fictitious teachers, who exist only on paper to misappropriate education funds, or they’re real teachers who rarely show...
Though the civil war that shattered Côte d’Ivoire has been over for almost three years, the nation is still struggling to piece itself back together. Since taking hold of the presidency in 2011, after four months of crisis and bloodshed, Alassane ...
Though the civil war that shattered Côte d’Ivoire has been over for almost three years, the nation is still struggling to piece itself back together. Since taking hold of the presidency in 2011, after four months of crisis and bloodshed, Alassane ...
On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking over 150 hostages and eventually killing 27 in the hotel. The hotel attack brought Mali back into t...
On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking over 150 hostages and eventually killing 27 in the hotel. The hotel attack brought Mali back into t...
Waves of protests on college campuses across the United States have opened urgent conversations about the presence of racism in higher educational institutions. This fall, students at various universities, including Yale, Missouri, and Brown, have co...
Waves of protests on college campuses across the United States have opened urgent conversations about the presence of racism in higher educational institutions. This fall, students at various universities, including Yale, Missouri, and Brown, have co...
After more than four years of violence, the Syrian Civil War is as much of a proxy struggle between major international actors as it is an internal conflict. The involvement of external parties — namely Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United St...
After more than four years of violence, the Syrian Civil War is as much of a proxy struggle between major international actors as it is an internal conflict. The involvement of external parties — namely Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United St...
The 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, or COP 21, begins on December 7th in Paris. The Paris Agreement already promises to be the most significant agreement on climate change since the Kyoto Protocol. As heads of state, negotiator...
The 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, or COP 21, begins on December 7th in Paris. The Paris Agreement already promises to be the most significant agreement on climate change since the Kyoto Protocol. As heads of state, negotiator...
On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable situation. At the first meeting between the leaders of China and Taiwan in 66 years, both men strict...
On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable situation. At the first meeting between the leaders of China and Taiwan in 66 years, both men strict...
This past summer, President Barack Obama ventured into new political territory with his visit to the El Reno prison in Oklahoma, which made him the first president ever to visit a federal correctional facility, and his commutation of the sentences o...
This past summer, President Barack Obama ventured into new political territory with his visit to the El Reno prison in Oklahoma, which made him the first president ever to visit a federal correctional facility, and his commutation of the sentences o...
With the eyes of the world trained on the Syrian conflict and its fallout, another refugee crisis has gone relatively unnoticed. Thousands of refugees and asylum seekers from Southeast Asia and Africa have been making their way to Australia, attracte...
With the eyes of the world trained on the Syrian conflict and its fallout, another refugee crisis has gone relatively unnoticed. Thousands of refugees and asylum seekers from Southeast Asia and Africa have been making their way to Australia, attracte...
It was late November at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia had come together to put an end to almost four years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. At the close of thre...
It was late November at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia had come together to put an end to almost four years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. At the close of thre...
On October 29, the European Parliament voted on a resolution encouraging member states to offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked classified information about the United States’ NSA surveillance program two yea...
On October 29, the European Parliament voted on a resolution encouraging member states to offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked classified information about the United States’ NSA surveillance program two yea...
On October 26, Jimmy Morales, an ex-comedian with no political background, was elected as Guatemala’s new president. Morales’ victory came as no surprise; a wave of popular support had positioned him as the electorate’s favorite in polls conduc...
On October 26, Jimmy Morales, an ex-comedian with no political background, was elected as Guatemala’s new president. Morales’ victory came as no surprise; a wave of popular support had positioned him as the electorate’s favorite in polls conduc...