Burden of Choice
NEED TO KNOW SLOVAKIA Burden of Choice Slovak right-wing political party leader Marian Kotleba is facing charges of hate crimes that could […]
Up for Grabs
NEED TO KNOW GUYANA Up for Grabs Guyana was an inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed 1912 novel “The Lost World,” about […]
Time’s Up, Maybe
NEED TO KNOW ISRAEL Time’s Up, Maybe Is time up for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? His opponents sure think so. “Netanyahu […]
Trying Times
NEED TO KNOW JAPAN Trying Times Established in 1160, Tsuen Tea in Kyoto is perhaps the oldest continually operating tea house in […]
Moving Forward
NEED TO KNOW SUDAN Moving Forward Sudan appears to be turning a corner. After years of war and famine in the East […]
The Politics of Impunity
NEED TO KNOW EL SALVADOR The Politics of Impunity Since 2013, US officials have deported 138 people to El Salvador who were […]
Public Health
NEED TO KNOW HONG KONG Public Health Hong Kong officials recently evacuated some residents from an apartment block because they feared the […]
Freedom of Choice
NEED TO KNOW IRAN Freedom of Choice Iranian voters will elect a new parliament on Friday. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged […]
Mining for a New Leader
NEED TO KNOW GUINEA Mining for a New Leader International mining companies are circling around massive, high-quality ore deposits in Guinea. As […]
Uncharted Waters
NEED TO KNOW VIETNAM Uncharted Waters Vietnam has been a success story for globalization. The communist Southeast Asian country has become a […]
Contest of Our Time
NEED TO KNOW CHILE Contest of Our Time Free marketeers have long considered Chile a darling among South American countries due to […]
Skepticism of Liberty
NEED TO KNOW EASTERN EUROPE Skepticism of Liberty Judging by the success of so-called “illiberal,” populist governments in Hungary, Poland and elsewhere […]
Grand Plans
NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN Grand Plans Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have stalled. The former insists on a […]
A Question of Legitimacy
NEED TO KNOW CAMEROON A Question of Legitimacy Around 50,000 Cameroonian refugees have been flooding into Nigeria in recent weeks. They fear […]
From The Rubble
NEED TO KNOW HAITI From The Rubble Ten years ago this month, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble. As […]
Losing Hope
NEED TO KNOW ROMANIA Losing Hope Bucharest is supposedly the Paris of the East. Citing the French influence on the Romanian capital’s […]
Spinning One’s Wheels
NEED TO KNOW SOMALIA Spinning One’s Wheels Climate change is wreaking havoc in Somalia. People are making it worse. Massive locust swarms […]
Heart and Soul
NEED TO KNOW INDIA Heart and Soul An unstable man with right-wing tendencies took a gun to a student protest in India […]
Getting It Together
NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA Getting It Together As many as 3 million people died in the Nigerian civil war that ended 50 […]
An Exit from Crisis
NEED TO KNOW VENEZUELA An Exit from Crisis Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido recently defied a travel ban to attend an international […]
The Next Big Thing
NEED TO KNOW AFRICA The Next Big Thing Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is bullish on Africa. The continent has 1.3 billion people. […]
Loss and Change
NEED TO KNOW OMAN Loss and Change In early 2017, the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman invited Hassan Rouhani, the […]