Three weeks ago, on November 13, gunmen killed 129 people and injured hundreds more in six separate attacks in Paris, France. After...

As shoppers in the United States woke up early to score Black Friday deals on the day after Thanksgiving, in Nigeria the terrorist group...

The Air France dispute itself centers on the company’s efforts to cut costs and reduce its crippling debt. In the first half of 2015...

While warping time can make for good science fiction, the simple act of turning the hands of a clock has borne great significance for...

Political tremors are nothing new to Nepal. As the country has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past few decades, altercations...

Corruption in Afghanistan may not come as much of a surprise, but the country is far from the only one in the developing world afflicted...

Côte d’Ivoire’s fraught history provides a crucial frame for Ouattara’s rise to power. Under the 33-year rule of President Felix...

On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako,...

Waves of protests on college campuses across the United States have opened urgent conversations about the presence of racism in higher...

After more than four years of violence, the Syrian Civil War is as much of a proxy struggle between major international actors as it is...

The 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, or COP 21, begins on December 7th in Paris.  The Paris Agreement  already promises...

On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable...

This past summer, President Barack Obama ventured into new political territory with his visit to the El Reno prison in Oklahoma, which...

With the eyes of the world trained on the Syrian conflict and its fallout, another refugee crisis has gone relatively unnoticed....

It was late November at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and...

On October 29, the European Parliament voted on a resolution encouraging member states to offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the former...

On October 26, Jimmy Morales, an ex-comedian with no political background, was elected as Guatemala’s new president. Morales’ victory...

It has become increasingly clear that the effects of the Arab Spring are still reverberating across the Middle East four years after the...

At 11:55 in the morning of April 25, 2015, the streets of Kathmandu were as bustling as ever. Residents and tourists alike gathered under...

In the preface of his 1945 novel Animal Farm, George Orwell remarked, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell...