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 […]
The Big Cleanup
NEED TO KNOW PERU The Big Cleanup Peruvian police recently arrested six tourists for vandalizing Machu Picchu, the former Incan citadel that […]
An Easy Puzzle
NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA An Easy Puzzle Winston Churchill famously described Russia as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” […]
Hard Rise
NEED TO KNOW INDONESIA Hard Rise The leader of the fourth-most-populous country in the world, Indonesia, has big plans. President Joko Widodo […]
Annals of Reconstruction
NEED TO KNOW SYRIA Annals of Reconstruction Russian President Vladimir Putin recently floated the possibility of a meeting between Syrian President Bashar […]
Changing Partners
NEED TO KNOW CHINA Changing Partners As American politicians disparage international free trade deals, Asian leaders are moving forward with them. Late […]
Costly Speech
NEED TO KNOW TANZANIA Costly Speech In December, Tito Magoti was shopping for a new phone in Dar es Salaam, the largest […]
Taking Advantage of a Crisis
NEED TO KNOW IRAQ Taking Advantage of a Crisis The Islamic State was sinking. Now, maybe not so much. A coalition of […]
Bursting at the Seams
NEED TO KNOW CHINA Bursting at the Seams China is on track to double its gross domestic product, compared to ten years […]
History Today
NEED TO KNOW POLAND History Today Polish President Andrzej Duda might skip the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on January 23. Duda’s pique […]
The Setting for Peace
NEED TO KNOW YEMEN The Setting for Peace Predictions had been optimistic for Yemen. “Violence in Yemen will likely subside in 2020, […]
Amid Chaos, a Shoo-in
NEED TO KNOW TAIWAN Amid Chaos, a Shoo-in Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is almost sure to win re-election on January 11. That’s […]
No Time for Promises
NEED TO KNOW THE GAMBIA No Time for Promises Gambian President Adama Barrow made a pledge when he ended the 22-year rule […]
Giving and Taking
NEED TO KNOW FRANCE Giving and Taking French President Emmanuel Macron’s move in late 2018 to increase fuel taxes to fight climate […]
Hostages
NEED TO KNOW IRAQ Hostages The killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani triggered a cascade of events that is upending the […]
False Alarms
NEED TO KNOW NORTH KOREA False Alarms An American military base near the North Korean border mistakenly sounded air raid sirens rather […]
The Fog of War
NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN The Fog of War Americans recently learned that their military has been less-than-truthful about Afghanistan. “U.S. officials failed […]
Indirect Diplomacy
NEED TO KNOW LIBYA Indirect Diplomacy A new proxy war is escalating in Libya. Turkey is planning on sending troops to the […]
Unfinished Stories
PAST AND FUTURE WORLD Unfinished Stories As 2019 comes to a close, and with it, a decade, we at DailyChatter are taking […]