How A New International Pandemic Treaty Can Prevent the Next Big OneOn March 30th, leaders from 23 countries plus the heads of the World Health Organization and the European Union called...
Elections and Democratic Backsliding in BeninBenin is a geographically small country in West Africa, located between Nigeria and Togo. Since the 1990s Benin has earned...
The Epic Odyssey of a Stateless Refugee Family’s Quest to Find a HomeOn the podcast today is Ty McCormick, author of the new book Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family’s Quest...
Turkey Withdraws from a Key Gender-Based Violence Treaty and an Update from the Commission on the Status of WomenOn March 20th, the government of Turkey announced that is was withdrawing from a key human rights treaty known as...
“Weaponized Interdependence” and the Future of International RelationsFor much of the 1990s and 2000s the prevailing theory about globalization was that the ever tightening integration of economies...
In Brazil, Health Systems are Collapsing from COVID and a Major Political Showdown LoomsHealth systems in Brazil are collapsing. Hospitals are running out of beds and oxygen as COVID cases in Brazil soar....
How the United States Can Embrace a Feminist Foreign PolicyFifty days into the Biden-Harris administration, the United States has taken a number of key steps to revive multilateralism as...
Inside the Drive to Create a ‘Global Fund’ for Public Interest JournalismThe business of journalism has suffered mightily in the past several years. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic many independent media...
The Civil War in Ethiopia, Sparked By a Conflict in the Tigray Region, is Getting WorseIn early November a civil war broke out in Ethiopia. The conflict pitted the federal government and its allies against...
