NEED TO KNOW Tenacious Temer When Michel Temer became Brazil’s president last year, hopes were high he would restore a measure of […]

NEED TO KNOW New World Order The world order ended on Sunday. It’s not the first time, of course. Plenty of folks […]

NEED TO KNOW Two Presidents It was a peculiar moment in world politics yesterday as US President Donald Trump and his predecessor, […]

NEED TO KNOW Changing Direction The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, has been a pillar of transatlantic relations in the post-World […]

NEED TO KNOW May’s Mission With Britain weeks away from a general election, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s conservative Tory Party has […]

NEED TO KNOW No Illusions Earlier this month, global leaders and the international community at large commemorated the twelfth-annual International Day Against […]

NEED TO KNOW Good and Evil US President Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia on Sunday reinforced the battle lines that have […]

NEED TO KNOW A League of Its Own President Donald Trump will embark on a string of foreign visits Friday that includes […]

NEED TO KNOW House of Cards Ordinary Chinese people know that the children of Communist Party leaders amass wealth via familial connections. […]

NEED TO KNOW No to Silence Mexican journalists demonstrated on Tuesday to remember the life and protest the murder of Javier Valdez, […]

NEED TO KNOW Loathe Thy Neighbor In Iraq, military forces are opening new fronts against the Islamic State in Mosul, advancing efforts to […]

NEED TO KNOW The Iron Mainstream German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position as the most powerful leader in Europe appears secure after her […]

NEED TO KNOW Nepal Nepal’s long struggle toward democracy hit another bump recently when Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi nearly resigned in […]

NEED TO KNOW Risks and Rewards Stretching from the Pacific to the Mediterranean, the Silk Road underpinned China’s economic and cultural dominance […]

NEED TO KNOW Clearing the Path For decades, world leaders have launched many high-powered development and philanthropic initiatives in Africa. Seven years […]

NEED TO KNOW In Bloom Tech giant Google fired up its first internet servers last week on the formerly isolated island of […]

NEED TO KNOW Viva la Reprieve As Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency in a landslide on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s […]

NEED TO KNOW A Loaded Choice The French will go to the polls Sunday to vote for a new president, choosing between […]

NEED TO KNOW Turbulence and Resilience Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India has proven to be remarkably resilient, even in turbulent times. The […]

NEED TO KNOW Strength in Numbers In a year defined by the rising tide of populism, one major world power seems to […]

NEED TO KNOW Northerly Neighbors When American policymakers complain about trade imbalances in North America, Mexico typically figures as the culprit. In […]

NEED TO KNOW In the Crossfire Iraqi commanders expect to take back Mosul from the Islamic State this month, Reuters reported on […]

NEED TO KNOW Papal Visits, Fragile Relations When bombs exploded at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday, some wondered […]

NEED TO KNOW Milk and Walls It’s no exaggeration to say that relations between the US and Mexico have reached new low […]