NEED TO KNOW INDIA Deadly Fake News American regulators are investigating how Facebook might have aided and abetted bad actors who allegedly […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Magic Man To call it a landslide would be an understatement. After two previous failed presidential bids, leftist […]

NEED TO KNOW SINGAPORE Cutting the Strings The small yet wealthy city-state of Singapore was in the international spotlight last month for […]

NEED TO KNOW NORTH AFRICA/EU Passing the Buck After debating the bloc’s refugee policies into the wee hours of Friday morning last […]

A Declaration, Then and Now It’s July 4, and to celebrate the founding of our nation, we at DailyChatter spoke to historian and author Emily Conroy-Krutz about early American foreign […]

NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM To the Edge Bloomberg recently reported that British diplomats want a quick end to negotiations over the […]

NEED TO KNOW TOGO A Tiny Revolution For almost a year, protesters in the tiny West African country of Togo have been […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Lofty Visions The ambitious leftist outsider Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known among his supporters as AMLO, is likely […]

NEED TO KNOW MIDDLE EAST A Crude Balance One of the many big questions facing the Middle East today is how to […]

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN No Clothes For The Emperors Pakistan has appointed a former Supreme Court justice to lead a caretaker government […]

NEED TO KNOW EUROZONE The Cost of Discord Eurozone leaders recently gave a sop to Grecian taxpayers, giving Greece more time and […]

NEED TO KNOW MADAGASCAR The Milkman, the DJ, and the Accountant Months of political strife on Madagascar have seemingly come to a […]

NEED TO KNOW INDIA A Buoy, A Flashpoint It’s been a long time coming, but India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arguably cemented […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA The Other Canadian Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cuts a progressive figure, talking regularly about feminism and diversity. […]

NEED TO KNOW SLOVENIA Liberals and Illiberals The right-wing, anti-immigrant Slovenian Democratic Party, led by two-time former Prime Minister Janez Jansa, won […]

NEED TO KNOW JORDAN A Little Help From Friends Few believe the $2.5 billion in aid that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates […]

NEED TO KNOW IRAN/EUROPE The Squeeze Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently told Chinese and Russian leaders that US efforts “to impose its […]

NEED TO KNOW WOMEN’S RIGHTS Me, Too Censors delete references to #metoo on social media in China. So people recently started posting […]

NEED TO KNOW TURKEY The Bigger They Are… The former mayor of Istanbul, longtime prime minister and now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]

NEED TO KNOW CHINA Boom and Bust Imagine if one of your siblings suddenly announced they could no longer take mom or […]

NEED TO KNOW BURUNDI Wishful Thinking Though he’d just won a referendum allowing him to remain in office for another 14 years, […]

NEED TO KNOW BANGLADESH Role Models Imitation may be the highest form of flattery but when it comes to Bangladesh mimicking the […]

NEED TO KNOW SYRIA The Indispensable Nation Is Russia the indispensable nation in the Middle East? Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Sean McFate […]

NEED TO KNOW ERITREA Bald Men, Combs and Despots Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki delivered a powerful speech last month to mark the […]