As a Chilean citizen, Jonathan Franklin has used Chile’s education vouchers to send his seven children to public and private schools of...

Back in December, The Atlantic broke the story that the Trump administration was in talks with their Vietnamese counterparts to...

On November 16, 2017, Egyptian satirist Islam al-Rifai walked into a trap set by authorities. The comedian believed he was attending a...

“ARMY, LANGUAGE, FAITH,” mockingly boomed an actor playing Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, to an enthralled crowd in a...

On August 12, 2018, the Egyptian government ratified the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes Law, a measure outwardly aiming to...

Insofar as the defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) merits international delight, its emergence in Afghanistan has...

In the remote reaches of Kyrgyzstan, where legal services are hitherto nearly non-existent, a group of lawyers is bridging the...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the city of Baghouz, ISIS’ last stronghold in Syria, in March. While formally the SDF still...

Transfers of power in illiberal and authoritarian states are rarely fluid. We have very few examples of peaceful and lasting regime...

The growing presence of ‘fake news’ has drastically changed political discussions, with many fearing the larger ramifications of its...

In October of 1960, Nigeria gained independence, joining a growing group of fledgling, post-Colonial African states. In boundaries carved...

The World Economic Forum this year in Davos, Switzerland, made clear the unfortunate stress that continues to increasingly pressure...

The blue bins are for recycling; everyone knows that. Everything in those bins gets melted down and reused for manufacturing paper or...

Vibrant, cosmopolitan, and an international financial hub, Hong Kong is known for its high level of development and integration into the...

Since Colonial times, oil and connected international corporations have had a major influence over the nations of Nigeria and Equatorial...

This month, Serbia’s government approved a Russian plan to construct a vast network of pipeline stretching from the Bulgarian border...

Heavily guarded by steel-anchored concrete walls, the American embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, symbolizes a striking ground...

Japan is opening its doors. After a long tradition of stringent immigration policies that severely limited the number of foreigners...

In the first few months of 2019, streams of women, children, and surrendered fighters have trickled out from the Islamic State’s last...

From the 86,000 seats in Lusail Stadium (one of nine stadiums under construction) to the newly constructed gleaming residential...