NEED TO KNOW Herd Mentality The shooting of conservationist Kuki Gallmann on her ranch in northern Kenya was a high-profile example of […]

NEED TO KNOW Mainstream and Mavericks The first round of voting in the French presidential election on Sunday was already billed as […]

NEED TO KNOW Neighborly Relations, Hard Lines A resurgent Taliban has posed problems as the US and Afghanistan discuss how to move […]

NEED TO KNOW No ‘Plan B’ Argentinian President Mauricio Macri has pushed the country down an ambitious path of reforms since his […]

NEED TO KNOW Squaring the Circle During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Florida earlier this month, […]

NEED TO KNOW A New Turkey Elections are supposed to decide issues. The vote in Turkey on Sunday has almost certainly not […]

NEED TO KNOW The Lost Children Three years ago, Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in northern Nigeria. Nearly 200 […]

NEED TO KNOW Wanted: A Compelling Alternative South African President Jacob Zuma has been called the Teflon Don thanks to his unflappable […]

NEED TO KNOW An Appeal to the Masses Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday meeting with King Salman. […]

NEED TO KNOW Mutual Mistrust Even under the best circumstances, tensions between Russia and the US would probably have been high ahead […]

NEED TO KNOW The Confidence Crisis In the short run, the Islamic State’s attacks on two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on […]

NEED TO KNOW The Old Song and Dance Serbians took to the streets in recent days in protest against the election of […]

NEED TO KNOW The Art of Trade The leaders of the world’s two largest economies are meeting each other for the first […]

NEED TO KNOW No U Turn It’s been about eight months since the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Many observers were […]

NEED TO KNOW The Final Fight After six months of fighting, the battle for Mosul – the Islamic State’s last remaining stronghold […]

NEED TO KNOW A Studied Approach Prime Minister Viktor Orban has consolidated power and undercut civil liberties in Hungary for years. Now […]

NEED TO KNOW A Legal Coup Despite years of political repression, human rights abuses, economic crises and food shortages, much of the […]

NEED TO KNOW More Than Words After Germany and the Netherlands blocked Turkish officials earlier this month from lobbying Turkish expatriates in […]

NEED TO KNOW Lucky 777 Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s former number two leader, became the city’s chief executive after winning two-thirds of […]

NEED TO KNOW The New Norm of Low Tech Investigators are still trying to figure out why 52-year-old British national Khalid Masood […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Flags and Ducks The tug of war between protesters and police over opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the streets […]

NEED TO KNOW Closing the Door A year and a half after Europe’s refugee crisis began, the question of what to do […]

NEED TO KNOW Attention Please! Another bleaching event is already striking Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the heels of the one that […]

NEED TO KNOW Zebras and Stripes Many in Israel girded for a renewal of violence in the Gaza Strip when militant ex-convict […]