Air Conditioners Can Teach Us A Lot About International DevelopmentWhat’s the relationship between air conditioning, air temperature and income levels? In other words, at what income level and in...
Meet a 2015er: Miroslav Polzer“We should have local communities organize themselves and mobilize resources for their interests and the global community should provide additional...
The Rohingya Boat Refugee CrisisA dangerous game of human pingpong is underway in the Adaman Sea between Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Thousands of...
The Digital BeltwayMashable and the United Nations Foundation are teaming up again today for an afternoon conference in Washington, DC that will...
Did Nepal Just Dodge a Bullet?Two years ago, I asked a top UN expert in disaster to describe the one scenario that keeps him up...
Earthquake in Nepal: “Our Nightmare Scenario,” Says UN OfficialAn earthquake in Katmandu is shaping up to be an horrific disaster. In 2013, I spoke with Jo Scheuer of...
Inside the Winning Fight Against MalariaHumanity is winning the fight against Malaria. Since the advent of the Global Fund, the Millennium Development Goals and the...
Episode 61: Juliette KayyemJuliette Kayyem is a practitioner and scholar of security studies. She’s a former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, civil right...
Palestinians in Syria are Stuck in “The Deepest Circle of Hell”When the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus was overrun by ISIS, a bad situation got much worse. Ban Ki moon...