NEED TO KNOW I’ll Do It My Way British Prime Minister Theresa May keeps saying, “Brexit means Brexit.” But it turns out almost nobody really knows what that means. May has created a new Department for Exiting the EU to figure it out. So far they haven’t made...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Once More, With Fairness Europe is calling for a recount in Gabon's recent presidential election. It's the latest escalation in a largely overlooked conflict, on a largely overshadowed continent, that unfortunately grapples with such issues far too often. European Union election observers noted "anomalies" in the...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Lasting Pivot US President Barack Obama’s last big trip to Asia ended this week with his visit to Laos following the Group of 20 meeting in China. It's message, the same over the past eight years, "we care," was overshadowed by a brouhaha...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW A Democracy Grows in China World leaders were in China Monday for a Group of 20 summit that reminded everyone yet again of the expanding geopolitical power of the world’s most populous country. But Nathan Law and Hong Kong voters had a different message in...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Two Twilights As US President Barack Obama manages the end of his tenure in office, he's also arguably presiding over the twilight of the United States' status as the world's indispensable superpower. Or so some pundits say. Over the weekend, on the eve of the G20...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Wars, Civil and Proxy Russia’s military excursions in Syria have not only tipped the balance of power in the country’s civil war toward Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, they’ve also put Moscow ahead of the United States in the proxy war that is now raging...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW From Oil to Starbucks While countries in North Africa and the Levant have seen much turmoil since the Arab Spring kicked off in 2011, Saudi Arabia has been a regional exception, seemingly impervious to the internal strains that have ripped apart the societies of...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Hemorrhage of Souls One year into Europe's refugee crisis, the continent has come to grips with this immense challenge, right? Wrong. Refugees are still flooding into the continent. What's more, those who are arriving often join others stuck in tent cities where they've been channeled...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Kingdom of Crackdowns The tiny island kingdom of Bahrain has remained relatively stable in a region upended by turmoil, especially since the so-called "Arab Spring" five years ago. Even so, widespread riots rocked the country in 2011 when activists and Bahrain's Shiite majority took...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW A Dishonorable Practice Drugged and murdered by her brother for behavior her killer claimed was dishonoring the family and un-Islamic, 26-year-old Qandeel Baloch was yet one more victim of a so-called "honor killing" in Pakistan – the brutal practice in which a woman is...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Vision Thing British voters' decision to leave the European Union in June didn’t technically trigger the formal process to leave the world's biggest commercial bloc – London must first invoke the now-infamous Article 50. But signs of economic damage wrought by the move are...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Saddest Microcosm For the past five months, the Yemeni capital of Sana'a has been mostly quiet. Quiet for Sana'a, that is. Fighter jets laden with bombs weren't flying over the dwellings resembling gingerbread houses. Shots ringing out weren't the norm at night for a...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW A Spectacle of Catastrophe? Rattled by impeachment and corruption scandals, a vicious recession and a public health emergency thanks to the Zika virus, Brazil would have had a memorable 2016 regardless of what’s coming next. Yet those crises will take a back seat to the...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Being Different When Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others began flooding into Europe last year, some warned that terrorists might be among them. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel opted for an open-door policy for the beleaguered refugees – whose plight echoed that of the East Germans...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Russian Dolls Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sent geopolitical ripples hither and thither on Wednesday when he called on Moscow to locate the 30,000 emails his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton deleted before investigators began looking into how she routed State Department messages through a...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Taking Stock Two years after the short yet brutal war between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, there are few signs of recovery in Gaza. Known in Israel as "Operation Protective Edge," the seven-week conflict in July and August 2014 killed more than 2,100 Palestinians,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Summer of Discontent After years of disastrous economic policies, Zimbabweans' patience with 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe appears to be wearing thin. “The campaign that we are getting into, we are very (sure) that by Aug. 31, Robert Mugabe will be done away with,” Happymore...
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