Among the flurry of executive orders signed by Joe Biden on his first day as President was the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline,...

On Wednesday, January 27, the Polish government enacted a near-total ban on abortion with exceptions only for fetal abnormalities, rape,...

In September 2020, now-President Joe Biden referred to Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (...

On February 4, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden announced the end of US military aid for the calamitous Saudi-led war effort in...

In the city of Baku, in the small Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan, three futuristic glass towers dominate the skyline. At night, they are...

Political opponents jailed. Press censored. Civil liberties restricted. Human rights abused. All in response to widespread protests...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate has stood as a symbol for a nation rebuilt from the ravages of war and for the...

As more and more Covid-19 vaccines have come onto the market, a global race of nations competing to vaccinate as much of their country’s...

Voting should be simple. It shouldn’t require standing 11 hours in line. It shouldn’t cause thousands of ballots to be thrown out because...

In early 2020 as the world braced for the Covid-19 pandemic, only 20 percent of Venezuela’s hospitals had basic supplies. By May,...

Young Nigerians have taken to the streets demanding the shut down of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) due to police brutality. They...

Wellywood, also known as Wellington, is the film hub and unsung hero of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s economic growth. The capital city has...

As the Covid-19 outbreak swept across Europe in March 2020, the safety of workers unable to perform their jobs from home could not be so...

Chilean pro-democracy activists once used the slogan “La alegria ya viene” [“Happiness is coming”] to protest against the brutal dictator...

As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, reports say officials and politicians in London have been frantically pivoting to...

Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist, first filed a privacy complaint against Facebook in 2011. Nine years and two...

Each time I visited Matam, one of Senegal’s rural regions, it was instantly recognizable. Year after year, very little to no changes were...

Nine months after the novel coronavirus was announced in China, it has spread to nearly every inch of the globe. Even the most isolated...

Freedom House, a nonpartisan watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and documenting the progress of democracy,...

In 2020, 300 families were forced to flee the rural town of Totumito, Colombia after the massacre of eight civilians, permanently...