How “The Girl Effect” Has Changed International DevelopmentThe “Girl Effect” is a concept that has been around international development for the better part of a decade. It...
How a vaccine scare caused polio to re-emerge in the Philippines after 19 yearsNineteen years after polio was officially eradicated in the Philippines, the incurable disease has made a resurgence due to widespread...
Why is Russia Suddenly So Interested in the Central African Republic?Dionne Searcey travelled to the Central African Republic to report on a story that has previously lead to the murder...
Why Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Won the Nobel Peace PrizeEthiopia’s young Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. In conferring the honor, the...
Turkey Invades Syria, and Kurdish Fighters Who Helped Defeat ISIS Are TrappedKurdish forces have a long history of siding with the United States. And the United States has a long history...
Antonio Guterres Warns Thousands of Employees that the UN is Running Out of MoneyIn a highly unusual letter sent to thousands of UN staffers, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned of an impending budget...
Three Years Ago, The Battle of Mosul Began. This was the beginning of the end of the Islamic State’s “Caliphate”The battle of Mosul began exactly three years ago this month. Iraqi government forces and allied Kurdish militias with backing...
Why Human Rights Defender Gulalai Ismail Fled PakistanGulalai Ismail won’t tell me how she came to New York. Doing so, she says, will put too many lives...
How Climate Change is Fueling the Rise of Right Wing NationalismThis article by Joshua Conrad Jackson of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland is...
