China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an...

Trying to stop human-caused climate change is like trying to stop a speeding bus; you need to slow it down first. Carbon dioxide already...

“Gross National Happiness (GNH) is more important than Gross National Product.” This famous quotation by Bhutan’s Fourth King Jigme...

When Venezuelans lined up to fill their tanks the morning of February 19th, they encountered an unpleasant surprise: gasoline was over a...

In a jaw-dropping announcement last month, it emerged that Donald Trump was inexplicably nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. An anonymous...

While the Arab Spring uprisings ignited simmering discontent across many nations in the Middle East, Western media was quick to celebrate...

In 2014, the events leading up to and following the referendum on Scottish independence dominated news coverage around the world. The...

While much hay has been made over 2015’s assortment of political upsets, one of the most interesting applecarts to be overturned has...

Manga, Japan’s infamous cartoon characters, are now being employed as something new: military weapons. The display of charming, young...

Earlier this month, Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and leader of the student...

Big changes are underway in Taiwan. Earlier this year, the country’s political landscape was significantly reshaped, as Tsai Ing-wen, the...

India has been rocked by the recent arrest of two students on colonial-era sedition charges for their involvement in protests against the...

Erratic! Dangerous! Brainwashed! Theocratic! Whichever epithet is ascribed to North Korea and its people, the common image cast of the...

Since the start of 2016, ISIL has fought a sophisticated, multi-front battle for Libyan oil industry infrastructure from its stronghold...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively,” estimating that there are approximately 4...

In no other state is the price of truth as high as it is in Veracruz. With a record number of 16 journalists murdered since 2010, the...

BPR is covering the lecture by Ambassador Chas Freeman on the ability of America to shape international politics, and how that has...

“Festive atmosphere – celebrations largely peaceful.” Such was the German police’s summary of New Year’s Eve in Cologne on the morning of...

It is hard to go a day without thinking about the strange weather that has graced this winter so far. In 2015, major cities across the...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have been forced to leave their home because of conflict, violence, human rights...