Operation Dismantlement
NEED TO KNOW Operation Dismantlement POLAND The results of the Oct. 15 parliamentary elections in Poland are echoing throughout Europe. Women and […]
Oversight Versus Insight
NEED TO KNOW Oversight Versus Insight ISRAEL/ GAZA On Sept. 11, Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, told members […]
Something Old, Something New
NEED TO KNOW Something Old, Something New NAGORNO-KARABAKH Simon Maghakyan, a visiting scholar at Tufts University who studies heritage crime, recently warned […]
Bittersweet Chocolate
NEED TO KNOW Bittersweet Chocolate IVORY COAST Half of the dark chocolate in the world comes from cocoa that originates from Ivory […]
‘The Champagne Fascist’
NEED TO KNOW ‘The Champagne Fascist’ ITALY Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, an icon of the far-right in Europe, recently announced that […]
Failing a State
NEED TO KNOW Failing a State HAITI Kenyan lawmakers are considering a plan to deploy 1,000 police to Haiti. This unique effort […]
No Quarter
NEED TO KNOW No Quarter ISRAEL/ GAZA When Israel gave the order to evacuate northern Gaza in advance of military strikes, Lubna […]
Walking the Plank
NEED TO KNOW Walking the Plank PAKISTAN Around 700,000 Afghan refugees fled to neighboring Pakistan since 2021 when the Taliban assumed power […]
Down in the Valleys
NEED TO KNOW Down in the Valleys SWITZERLAND Polls show that Switzerland’s right-wing People’s Party will garner the most votes in parliamentary […]
Twirl, Dip and Turn
NEED TO KNOW Twirl, Dip and Turn ARGENTINA Argentina’s financial markets reeled in August after presidential candidate Javier Milei won the largest […]
Bloody Franchise
NEED TO KNOW Bloody Franchise UKRAINE Ukrainians are fighting to defend their country’s sovereignty and, ostensibly at least, democracy. That’s why the […]
The Before and the After
NEED TO KNOW The Before and the After ISRAEL/ GAZA No matter what one thinks of the plight of the Palestinians who […]
Down and Out, Down Under
NEED TO KNOW Down and Out, Down Under AUSTRALIA Australians over the weekend shot down a constitutional amendment to provide the country’s […]
Sovereign Hearts
NEED TO KNOW Sovereign Hearts POLAND Senior European Union officials are demanding an explanation from Poland over allegations that Polish diplomats sold […]
Plus ça Change
NEED TO KNOW Plus ça Change NEW ZEALAND The former prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, who served from 2017 through […]
Goodbye, Status Quo
NEED TO KNOW Goodbye, Status Quo ISRAEL/ GAZA Thousands of young people were dancing at an outdoor music festival near the Gaza […]
The Devils You Know
NEED TO KNOW The Devils You Know LIBERIA The Supreme Court of Liberia last week called on the West African country’s National […]
Isthmus, Jammed
NEED TO KNOW Isthmus, Jammed PANAMA Officials operating the Panama Canal recently capped the number of ships passing through the commercial waterway […]
Speak, Calliope
NEED TO KNOW Speak, Calliope LIBYA Poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi penned eerily prescient lines in the days before he would die in a […]
A Family Affair
NEED TO KNOW A Family Affair INDONESIA Kaesang Pangarep, a 28-year-old YouTube influencer and entrepreneur who is also the youngest son of […]
Looking Outward
NEED TO KNOW Looking Outward CANADA/ INDIA Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar recently said that his government was open to investigating any […]
Roots and Branches
NEED TO KNOW Roots and Branches UKRAINE Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov resigned in early September. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that, while […]
Disappearing the Disappeared
NEED TO KNOW Disappearing the Disappeared MEXICO The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recently announced that prosecutors had sought to […]
Fickle Friend
NEED TO KNOW Fickle Friend SLOVAKIA Since the invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia has become diplomatically isolated from the West – […]