A Coup in Zimbabwe? Robert Mugabe is Seemingly DeposedThe Zimbabwean military has apparently taken control in the capital city of Harare and detained longtime president Robert Mugabe. Army...
The UN’s Nightmare Scenario is Currently Unfolding in YemenEven before a blockade was imposed around Yemen, some 7 million people faced famine-like conditions. Over 900,000 people were sickened by...
Michael Bloomberg and Jerry Brown are Leading a Shadow US Delegation to the Big UN Climate Talks in BonnThe Trump administration is at the climate conference in Bonn to tout America’s coal and natural gas reserves, but a...
PODCAST: Peter W. Galbraith helped uncover and confront two genocidesPeter Galbraith helped uncover and confront two genocides. As a staffer in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1980s,...
A Major Global Report About Nutrition Around World Shows That We Are All Eating the Wrong ThingsThe 2017 Global Nutrition report was released last week. It describes a world where people are eating the wrong things. While it...
The Crisis in Yemen Takes a Turn for the WorseYemen is already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and it appears that the situation is poised to deteriorate even further. ...
An Obscure Debate in the UK Over What Counts as “Foreign Aid” Has Big Global ImplicationsAn arcane debate in the United Kingdom about what properly qualifies as “foreign aid” could have a big impact on...
“I can’t imagine this will not be one of the most devastating humanitarian catastrophes we’ve seen in decades.”Amidst the political upheaval in Saudi Arabia this week, a decision by the newly empowered Saudi Crown price to impose...
The Kenya Election Crisis, ExplainedLast week Kenyan election officials announced that President Uhuru Kenyatta won re-election in a landslide vote. But rather than marking...