Dozens of Malaysian protesters recently dressed up like zombies to demonstrate what they perceive to be a fast-approaching, grim reality...

By I Naishad Kai-ren At the World Economic Forum in January, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stoked international controversy when he...

“I feel my whole body burning,” were Michael Lee Wilson’s last words in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on January 9. Seven days later,...

There’s something archetypal about the ignominious flight of a newly unseated despot — Louis XVI, the Tsar and the Shah all come to mind....

For President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 was a warring year. In August, Congress signed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized the...

In the space of less than a generation, China has transformed itself from a nation almost completely cut off from the international...

To South Koreans, the city of Hamhung is known as the birthplace of Hamhung naengmyun, a popular cold noodle dish. However, to those...

By Yidi Wu Seven months after the Sandy Hook shootings in Newtown, CT, Obama encouraged citizens to speak up – not just about gun...

“Jew, leave! France is not yours!” This was the rallying cry of up to 120,000 protesters on January 26. The protest, dubbed the Jour de...

By Emilio Leanza Corruption is common in India, but the country’s newest political ensemble, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has a platform...

By Ian Tarr On March 3, 2005, Albert Florence’s wife was driving her husband and their child down a New Jersey road. Unexpectedly, the...

What follows is a look back at Yemen’s 2011 Revolution, which was first triggered by a mass desire to change the political structure and...

Trouble is brewing in the Colombian coffee industry. Production collapsed in 2012, after blights and adverse weather killed a large...

Standing before a packed audience in the Taubman Center for Public Policy, Timothy Edgar called this past summer a “crisis of confidence”...

On October 1, Muslims in the coastal village of Thabyuchaing in the northwest of Burma fled into the surrounding forests as their homes...

By Dylan Platt When white smoke plumed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel last March, it was the unwitting signal of an international...

By Michael Tamayo “It will arise from the ashes.” It seems fitting that Detroit’s city motto involves rebirth from ruin. Detroit’s...

In the years after the Vietnam War ended, Americans were said to have suffered “Vietnam syndrome,” a cultural condition that led to...

By Adam Savat They may have a stiff upper lip, but the British are having a tough time coping with cattle panic. Almost all major cattle...

By Adam Bouche Politicians have a difficult time grasping the scientific method. All too frequently, scientific knowledge and research is...