“What happens to a country without land? Where will we call home?” Such are the considerations facing Tuvalu, a small island nation in...

India, the world’s largest democracy, seems to be slowly but surely falling into a state of restricted freedom under the control of the...

Debates about fertility rates rage around the world. India is no exception. As a country where family and children are valued above...

Rohingya Muslims, who have long been denied Burmese citizenship and identity, are no closer to seeing a new age of justice. Having been...

In resource-rich countries, achieving substantive environmental reform can be incompatible with the potential profits of oil and natural...

Hailed as the “Miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s rapid growth transformed the economy of one of the poorest countries in the world...

Seven days of incessant inter-communal violence: 1,044 dead, 223 missing, and 2,500 injured. The Gujarat riots shook the Indian...

It may be forever unknown whether a London barrister named Sir Cyril Radcliffe, sketching a map in the summer of 1947, pondered the words...

“It has been a long time since we last met, and I hope it will be a long time before we have to part.” In his address to the 2018 Boao...

Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western...

In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the...

The year is 1701. A fire burns inside a colossal wooden Longhouse near modern-day Syracuse, New York. Around it delegates from five...

Until very recently, China was the only country in the world still holding fast to a zero-Covid strategy, an approach that focuses on...

At the 2021 International Summit for Democracy, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched his address by stating he was “proud to...

It happened at night. The people awoke as the walls began to shake, disrupting what would otherwise have been a normal August night in...

On July 9, 2022, more than 100,000 Sri Lankan protesters stormed the residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, forcing the president to...

In 2021, the United States announced plans to construct two new military installations in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and...

The United States of America is still a colonial empire. What began as colonies and island possessions around the world have now simply...

If you randomly select five people across the globe, statistically, one of them will be Chinese. According to the Seventh National Census...

As Hurricane Ian pounded Florida, we in the United States were once again reminded of the devastating impact of climate change. With...