The last thing Americans wanted during their Thanksgiving break was to have to learn another Greek letter. However, last week, South Africa and Botswana announced their first cases of what the World Health...
At a CNN town hall last Thursday, President Biden was asked if the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. Before the moderator even finished asking the question,...
Angela Merkel has dominated the German political conversation for 16 years; now that she is stepping down, German politics faces more uncertainty than it has seen for most of the 21st century.
Germany...
When I asked to use his photo for this article, Kabul-based photographer Omer Khan politely agreed. He then told me the story of how he and his family fled Afghanistan and is now based in a refugee camp...
African nations have long experienced exploitation and colonialism at the hands of powerful Western nations. Following the aftermath of Western colonialism, various countries attempted to rebuild the African...
Image credit: Hedinn Halldorsson via UNICEF USA
Four years ago, VPR writer Sahil Soni wrote about the US’ complicity in the Yemen genocide, a disaster which he--echoing an earlier statement by the...
Standing in opposition to one of the most powerful men in the world is no easy feat. However, one man has done so in dramatic fashion—in Russia.
Alexei Navalny is a Russian lawyer and activist who...
Last week, China dispatched 25 warplanes from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to fly over Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, escalating its already tense relationship with the United States....
Socialism: it’s when the government does stuff. This common meme phrase is often used to highlight how readily/easily people accuse things of being socialist when they do not like those things. Perhaps...
While President Joe Biden has fulfilled his campaign promise to distribute 100 million vaccines in his first 100 days in office, much of the world is still lagging behind. As of the first week of March,...
In David Osit’s 2020 documentary “Mayor,” Musa Hadid navigates his role as the Christian-Arab mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the West Bank.
The film’s focus ranges from following...
In Biden’s first speech after winning the presidential election, he identified making “America respected around the world again” among his top priorities. Part of this entails increasing the global...
