The week before the US presidential election, then-Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine made history by delivering the first...

Rome wasn’t built in a day. The reconstruction of modern Italy, likewise, has been slow and taxing. Former Prime Minister and billionaire...

Help wanted: Facebook is seeking a Head of Public Policy in Bangkok, Thailand. Responsibilities include monitoring Thai politics, working...

The events playing out across Brazilian public high schools could very well have been penned by William Golding, but they are far from...

Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, uncontestably one of the most powerful convention speeches, stressed...

Over the course of the last few months, the entire world has waited with bated breath for the results of the US elections. As a result,...

In many ways, Rashad Newsome and Carell Johnson were no different from typical high school students: Newsome had a part-time job and was...

While the corny videos you might have watched in high school health class likely seemed humorous at the time, America’s failure to build...

On November 21, 2012, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani national and the only surviving gunman involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was...

On September 26, at the first 2016 presidential debate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointed a finger at Trump’s...

During the Cold War, global politics were characterized by the notion of bipolarity: The United States and the Soviet Union were...

On August 19, 1953, tragedy struck Tehran, Iran’s capital city. Democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown...

If the Nobel Prize in Literature was established to celebrate words that empower, then the Swedish Academy’s selection of Bob Dylan is...

On October 13 at 4am, a US naval destroyer launched a series of Tomahawk cruise missiles towards three radar sites along the Iran-backed...

The #NoDAPL protests have grown in size and scope this fall, but what exactly is the Dakota Access Pipeline and what are the larger...

In July 2012, Nigerian authorities certified the destruction of one of Lagos’ prominent slums, Makoko, otherwise known as the “Venice of...

Panama City is an intersection. It lies between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; between jungles and man-made waterways; between colorful...

At the end of September, President Obama hosted the 2016 Rio Olympic team at the White House, hailing the athletes as American role...

Since his inauguration this past June, the potent combination of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s theatricality, popularity, and...

Perhaps the most defining characteristic of racism in the United States is its pervasiveness. It goes beyond personal attitudes and seeps...