Why You Should Be Freaking Out that the US Centers for Disease Control Is Massively Cutting its Overseas Operations. (Hint: Diseases Like Ebola Don’t respect borders)About two weeks ago, an internal memo leaked from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It informed...
One Year In, The Trump Administration Seems to Have Learned to Like the UNFor the second time in less than one year, members of the United Nations Security Council met President Trump at...
PODCAST: What You Need to Know about Donald Trump’s New Nuclear Weapons PolicyYou’ve may of the Doomsday Clock. This is a rubric created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the dawn...
A Crisis in Cameroon is Forcing English Speakers to Flee in Alarming NumbersTo access to this podcast episode: subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify or get the mobile app to listen later. Over 10,000 people have fled from English...
PODCAST: What Big Data Can Teach Us About TerrorismAt the very end of last year I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the United States Institute...
9 Stories that will Drive the Global Agenda in 2018From potential nuclear armageddon to a new global compact on migration, and much in between– UN Dispatch presents our annual...
This has been an Interesting 24 hours of North Korea DiplomacyLate last week the UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman visited Pyongyang, making him the first high level...
Podcast: Michael McFaul, former US Ambassador to RussiaMichael McFaul served as US Ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that he...
PODCAST: Meet the Head of the UN’s Bomb SquadAgnès Marcaillou is the director of the United Nations Mine Action Service. This is the UN agency that helps clear...