Author Mark Leon Goldberg

On June 16th, the UN's top humanitarian official Mark Lowcock told members of the security council that there is famine in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. Some 350,000 people in Tigray are living in famine cond...

Ban Ki-moon served as the eighth secretary general of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016.  He is out with a new memoir titled Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World. The book gives his first-person a...

Digital repression is on the rise. Governments around the world have used tools like mass surveillance, internet blocking and disinformation to stay in power. This includes both autocratic governments and weak ...

Hana Meihan Davis comes from a long line of democracy activists in Hong Kong. Today, they are all either in exile, facing arrest, or something in between. Hana Meihan Davis is the author of the new book F...

On Sunday May 23rd a Belarusian fighter jet intercepted a civilian Ryan Air flight and forced it land in Minsk, Belarus. Authorities promptly arrested a dissident journalist onboard named Raman Protasevich and ...

As the world turns towards greener economies there will be a surge in demand for natural resources that enable a less carbon intensive future. This includes the mineral cobalt, which is key component of batteri...

The president of El Salvador is a political phenomenon. Nayib Bukele was elected in 2019 as a 37 year old third party candidate. He has a hipster's disposition and his trademark outfit is a backwards hat with j...

Conflict in Israel and Palestine is escalating in ways that we have seen before. Provocations have lead to armed violence, with the logic of escalation so far ruling the day. But what distinguishes this late...