Author Mark Leon Goldberg

The COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest iteration of what Charles Kenny calls "an unending war between humanity and infectious disease." His new book The Plague Cycle documents and describes how the course of ...

For the last several months Niger has experienced a surge in attacks against civilians by violent extremists. This includes a series of attacks in March in which hundreds of civilians have been killed. In one p...

When economies started tanking last year as COVID-19 spread rapidly around the globe, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund mounted their crisis response. The World Bank and IMF stepped up their lendin...

On March 30th, leaders from 23 countries plus the heads of the World Health Organization and the European Union called for a new international treaty to confront the next pandemic. In a joint statement that ...

Benin is a geographically small country in West Africa, located between Nigeria and Togo. Since the 1990s Benin has earned a reputation as a strong and stable multiparty democracy, with  multiple elections and ...

On the podcast today is Ty McCormick, author of the new book Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home The book tells the story of Asad Hussein who was born in a refugee camp in ...

On March 20th, the government of Turkey announced that is was withdrawing from a key human rights treaty known as the Istanbul Convention. Among other things, the Istanbul Convention seeks to criminalize gender...

For much of the 1990s and 2000s the prevailing theory about globalization was that the ever tightening integration of economies around the world was both largely benign and would reduce conflict among nations. ...

Health systems in Brazil are collapsing. Hospitals are running out of beds and oxygen as COVID cases in Brazil soar. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has long downplayed the severity of COVID and has discoura...