Need to Know Asia’s Brexit moment Japan is on track to deliver another momentous political change to today’s tumultuous geopolitics. On Sunday, Japanese voters gave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his allies a two-thirds vote in the country’s upper house. With his similar supermajority in the lower house,...
Read full story →July 8, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Blue Lives Matter The killings just won’t stop. Reeling from a series of mass shootings, the US is again confronting gun violence, racism and the sticky problem of gun rights. Snipers...
Read full story →July 7, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Tensions, New and Old Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are meeting in Warsaw Friday for a two-day summit that’s illustrating the challenges facing – as well as...
Read full story →July 6, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Hair shirts for spies Medieval penitents used to suffer in itchy hair shirts as a way to atone for their sins. The world’s intelligence agencies could use some discomfort of their...
Read full story →July 5, 2016 NEED TO KNOW North Korea: How Bad Is It? North Korea appears to have achieved a worrying capability following its recent successful launch of a Musudan medium-range missile after numerous flops. Pyongyang's Musudan traveled...
Read full story →July 4, 2016 EDITOR'S NOTE Today is Independence Day in America, the 240th anniversary of its birth as a new nation. July 4th is a day of celebration and remembrance and in its honor we...
Read full story →July 1, 2016 NEED TO KNOW No BoJo Means No With former London Mayor Boris Johnson, aka BoJo, out of the race for prime minister, the odds that the UK will step away from the ledge...
Read full story →June 30, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Duterte Show Goes Live Rodrigo Duterte was inaugurated Thursday as president of the Philippines following a landslide May 9 election victory and a campaign that featured misogyny, tough talk...
Read full story →June 29, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Taking a Step Back? When the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994, it was heralded as a milestone on the road toward a new era of globalization....
Read full story →June 28, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Lessons From Victory It took a month but Iraqi forces with the aid of the United States and Iran finally liberated Fallujah from the Islamic State. A mere 40 miles west...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Duterte’s Balancing Act The United States could be out of an ally when Rodrigo Duterte takes over as president of the Philippines next month. While his predecessor, Benigno Aquino, took a strong stance against Chinese aggression in the region and cozied up to the United...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW After Rousseff, More Turmoil for Brazil? Brazil’s first woman president abandoned the presidential palace Thursday morning. But the impeachment vote that sent her packing is unlikely to mean more than a temporary lull to the turmoil in Latin America’s largest economy. Here’s what the suspension...
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 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...
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