How Air Pollution, Children’s Health and GDP Correlate Mark Leon Goldberg April 30, 2020 Where does this air pollution come from? Setting fires to clear land for planting crops, or crop burning, is a common practice in many places around India. And as you can imagine, this kind of burning emits ...
What Kim Jong Un’s Health Rumors Teach Us About North Korea Mark Leon Goldberg April 27, 2020 Is North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gravely ill? Recent reports from the Korean Peninsula suggest that Kim Jong Un suffered a heart attack or some other serious medical calamity. Fueling these rumors is the fac...
How COVID-19 is Accelerating Geopolitical Shifts Mark Leon Goldberg April 23, 2020 COVID-19 Changing Geopolitics Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global order was poised for disruption. Global institutions were seemingly getting weaker; the United States under the Trump administration ...
Why the WHO Needs U.S. Support to Fight Coronavirus Spread Mark Leon Goldberg April 20, 2020 When President Trump announced a hold on US funding for the WHO (World Health Organization), nearly every single public health expert objected for the straightforward reason that COVID-19 does not respect borde...
Why Don’t More People Use Clean Cookstoves? Mark Leon Goldberg April 16, 2020 Contributing to air pollution For years, the global development community has struggled over the problem of dirty burning cookstoves. These are typically rudimentary stoves that burn wood or other biomass -- a...
It’s Been One Year Since Omar al Bashir’s Ouster. Here’s What We Have Learned About Corruption in Sudan During his Rule Mark Leon Goldberg April 13, 2020 Omar al Bashir and Sudan Exactly one year ago, in April 2019, Sudan's long ruling dictator Omar al Bashir was ousted from power. For nearly thirty years, Bashir ruled Sudan with an iron fist, suppressing disse...
Venezuela Plunges Deeper into Crisis Ben Freda April 9, 2020 The crisis in Venezuela is poised to get worse. On March 26th, the United States Department of Justice unsealed indictments against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and several top government officials. Th...
The Coronavirus Human Rights Crack Down Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2020 Human rights are being regulated Governments around the world are using the COVID-19 pandemic to make adjustments. They're using this time as a pretext to consolidate power, erode civil liberties, and crack do...
East Africa Crisis Caused By Swarms of Desert Locusts Mark Leon Goldberg April 2, 2020 How the East African locust swarms endanger lives Desert locusts are eating their way through East Africa on a scale not seen in decades. These migratory pests travel from field to field destroying either crop...
