May 12, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Iraq: Who's in Control? In Iraq, there are many people with many grievances: Protestors in the protected Green Zone are demonstrating against a lack of services, poor governance and corruption,...
Read full story →May 12, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Iraq: Who's in Control? In Iraq, there are many people with many grievances: Protestors in the protected Green Zone are demonstrating against a lack of services, poor governance and corruption,...
Read full story →May 11, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Burundi and Rwanda: Trouble Again The specter of conflict between the African nations of Burundi and Rwanda has reared its head again following a long period of political unrest, killings...
Read full story →May 10, 2016 NEED TO KNOW New Act in Greek Drama The never-ending drama over Greece's public finances entered another phase over the past few days when Parliament voted on a range of hotly debated reform...
Read full story →May 9, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Orwellian Pursuit of 'The Other' An economics professor on his way to deliver a lecture in Canada was pulled off a plane in Philadelphia after a woman sitting next...
Read full story →May 6, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Panama Papers: More to Come The journalists behind the Panama Papers exposé of offshore tax havens are slated to release a massive, searchable archive of their leaked documents next week. Will...
Read full story →May 5, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Irrepressible Egyptians Five years ago, most of the world was caught off-guard after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets and deposed a longtime dictator. Since then, Egypt...
Read full story →May 4, 2016 NEED TO KNOW India's Stubborn Rape Culture In India, it's unfortunately an all-too-common scenario: A brutal rape. A gruesome killing. A slow response by authorities. And for the past few years, many have wondered...
Read full story →May 3, 2016 NEED TO KNOW A Vital, Difficult Ally Idriss Deby, the newly re-elected president of Chad, is one ally the West cannot afford to lose. Surrounded by unstable national governments and under threat from hostile...
Read full story →May 2, 2016 NEED TO KNOW A Rocky Sea of Separation Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was in China this weekend to meet his counterpart, Wang Yi, in the hopes of repairing a historically rocky relationship...
Read full story →April 29, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Bangladesh: Trolls and Heroes Take a look at your Facebook page. Maybe you made a snarky comment about welfare moms, tax-dodging politicians, or the National Rifle Association. Maybe you just...
Read full story →April 28, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Syrian Ceasefire All But Collapses The pictures are heartbreaking. During the past week, around 200 civilians have been killed in and around Aleppo, as a so-called ceasefire in Syria descended into a pitched battle for...
Read full story →April 27, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Peace for South Sudan? Warring factions in South Sudan stepped closer to a lasting peace than anytime in the past two and a half years on Tuesday afternoon, when a powerful rebel...
Read full story →April 26, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Syria: Saving the Ceasefire or Assad? Eight weeks into a truce that was supposed to allow negotiators to hammer out a peace deal, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have stepped...
Read full story →April 25, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Obama Pivots Back Known for his agility on the basketball court, US President Barack Obama has some fancy footwork on the agenda Monday. He’s about to “pivot” back to Europe. Meeting...
Read full story →April 22, 2016 NEED TO KNOW China’s Port for Pakistan Containing China may not be such a good idea everywhere. Neither Washington nor any of its allies in Asia will cop to the containment strategy. But the...
Read full story →April 21, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Forgotten War It's one of the deadliest conflicts in the world, and yet it's overlooked. Even the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of Yemen's civil war on March 26 passed without notice....
Read full story →April 20, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Talking, Not Listening The ceasefire in the Syrian civil war lasted for around six weeks – if one is being generous with the term “ceasefire.” Both sides were complaining about breaches...
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