The World Health Organization Just Declared an Ebola “Emergency” in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s What That MeansThe ongoing ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is officially a public health emergency, according to the...
UN Report Finds Opioids Are Responsible for Nearly 400,000 Deaths WorldwideThe global opioid crisis is worse than we thought. Thanks to new and more precise data from India and Nigeria...
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, The Podcast InterviewWhat made former Ash Carter so unique among his predecessors was that by the time he became the Secretary of...
Countries with the Highest Murder Rates, Ranked in a New UN ReportArmed conflicts are becoming deadlier as violence intensifies, but a new United Nations (UN) report reveals that actually, intentional homicide...
A Secretly Filmed Documentary Exposes A Dystopian Nightmare for Uighur Muslims in ChinaUighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province of Northwestern China are living in a police state like no other on earth....
The White House Wants To Send Asylum Seekers To Guatemala. This is Probably IllegalThis is a guest post from Eric Schwartz, the president of Refugees International. He previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary...
Why Municipal Elections in Turkey Have Global SignificanceWhen Reccep Tayyep Erdogan’s party the AKP won a landslide victory in Turkey’s 2002 general elections he became a very...
What Political Science Can Teach Us About the World Cup and World PeaceThe US Women’s National Soccer Team’s run in this year’s World Cup is one for the history books. But do...
The United Nations is at the Center of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Will It Also Be the Site of Its Unraveling?The United Nations is at the center of the Iran Nuclear Deal. It was a series of robust international sanctions...
