Global issues, foreign policy, and the ideas that shape our planet.
How activism as we once knew it is changing, and where it may be taking us
The national park you’ve never heard of fighting a losing battle against oil exploration
On genocide, and why we’ll continue to say “Here We Go Again”
Why the post-war U.S. treaty with Japan is now untenable.
1 million refugees in Lebanon
Or, How the Cold Warriors Kept On Worrying Because They Just ‘Love’ the Bomb
This article by Ellery Roberts Biddle was originally published on Global Voices on April 7, 2014.
When people move, ideas move with them. Then ideas born far apart collide.
The story of Reeva Steenkamp — not if, but why..?
Improving Iran’s economy will take time…
Telephone Diplomacy (or Call Me, Maybe)
Free speech (and Twitter) under attack
Or an immigrant’s search for cultural identity.
In a country where about three quarters of the population live in rural areas and approximately 38% of them live in poverty, dairy products…
“I was introduced to Vladimir Putin’s KGB in the summer of 1981.”
How the internet made ‘lone wolf’ terrorism a misnomer.
Camelot, Cuba, Kubrick, Disney and—very nearly—the end of the world
Meet the modern economy, 1946-Present.
Can Sochi’s Olympics make Putin the man who restored Russia’s lost pride?
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