On June 14, 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a groundbreaking report on the human...

First published by the BBC in 2017, a video showing a young woman clinging for her life before falling from a seventh-floor window of a...

In the last two years, the Shanghai and Beijing Municipal Governments have been on a steady mission to, ostensibly, formalize the...

On August 14th, 2018, the Pennsylvania grand jury issued a report detailing the cover-up of more than 300 predator priests involved in...

This past July, US President Donald Trump made headlines for his behavior at the 2018 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in...

Since 2016, Portugal has enjoyed robust growth (at least relative to its European peers), climbing wages, and a precipitous drop in...

On August 15, 2018, the New Zealand parliament passed an unprecedented law barring most foreign buyers from purchasing homes, fulfilling...

Vice President Mike Pence created much ado in August when he revealed “Space Force,” —  a proposed sixth branch of the US military....

The recent passing of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the anti-Apartheid’s most enduring figures, has served as a reminder of the...

On Sunday, March 4th 2018, 46 million Italians voted to form the country’s 18th legislature and for the succession to a new government....

The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline, has been hailed as a “peace pipeline” with the...

China’s social credit policies have populated news headlines recently, and it’s easy to see why. The social credit score (SCS), which...

Ever since Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine gained traction in the early 19th century, vaccination has formed the bedrock of public...

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla known for his increasingly outlandish products, has flaunted bold visions for the colonization of Mars...

In rural Bawa, Mozambique, fetching water and washing clothes have become dangerous activities. For members of certain communities,...

A few years ago, one of the nearly 1,500 satellites orbiting Earth took a picture of the Nigerien desert. On that particular day, the...

In a given year, 4,224 people are killed by police brutality in Brazil (2016), 1,147 in the U.S. (2017), and 11 in Germany (2016). In...

Since the Cold War, global health and science has been dominated by the United States. In 2017, it spent $10.4 billion on global health,...

One hundred years ago, Sir Edmund Allenby and the soldiers of Britain’s 10th Light Horse Regiment passed through Jaffa Gate, an imposing...

Colombia is facing one of its most turbulent election cycles in recent years. This is the first vote in which the Fuerza Armada...