Why the USA is Working with the UN to Resettle Central American RefugeesAfter a quiet year in 2015, migrants fleeing violence in Central America are crossing the US border in numbers rivaling...
What an Illegal Facebook Post about a Piece of Horse ‘Anatomy’ says about Environmental Degradation in Central AsiaEarlier this month, a British man in Kyrgyzstan was arrested after comparing a local delicacy, chuchuk or offal, to horse...
Could Trouble in Burundi Take Down the Whole Region?Nine months after President Pierre Nkurunziza upended Burundi’s fragile post-conflict peace by announcing he would stand for a third term...
How the USA and the UN Helped Defeat Ebola in West AfricaEd note. This post was originally published in February 2015, when the WHO declared that the ebola outbreak in West...
Climate Change is bringing this deadly bacterial disease to the USAMelioidosis is a little-known bacterial infection that affects both humans and animals. It responds to very few antibiotics and is...
Can Gordon Brown Save a Generation of Syrian Children?Gordon Brown’s impact on British politics was fairly limited. He served as UK Prime Minister for just three years, from...
Bombings in TurkeyA bomb exploded in the tourism heart of Istanbul today. A bomb killed ten German tourists near Sultanahmet square, close...
Will Islamophobia Swing World Elections in 2016?Europeans in eight countries will go to the polls in 2016 in local and national elections, including in Germany, which...
Saudi-led coalition forces have dropped US-made cluster bombs on Yemeni neighborhoods. This is what it means for civilians.Google “Sanaa” this week, and you will find images of new destruction: broken glass, collapsed roofs and sandal-clad feet navigating...