NEED TO KNOW Maintaining Distances The vote in Colombia to reject a long-negotiated peace deal was one of a handful of recent […]

NEED TO KNOW Back to Square One International donors meeting in Belgium starting Tuesday were preparing to open their checkbooks for the […]

NEED TO KNOW A Fumbled Hexit Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suffered an embarrassment in his duel with Brussels. In a […]

NEED TO KNOW India’s Forever War Since the bloody Partition of India in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought four full-fledged wars […]

NEED TO KNOW A Duplicitous Doppelgänger Europe is often seen as a stalwart of democratic principles, far-reaching liberal values and human rights. […]

NEED TO KNOW A Tinderbox Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo need to work faster. The sprawling, mineral-rich Central African […]

NEED TO KNOW China’s Problem to Solve At the first head-to-head presidential debate on Monday night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said […]

NEED TO KNOW Learning Peace Week-long celebrations concluded Friday in the Yari Plains of the southern Colombian savannah as fighters from the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Bouncing Bozo Remember when Oliver North was on TV every day to discuss US chicanery in Nicaragua? No? […]

NEED TO KNOW Resentment and Tulips At first, Ethiopians protested for minority rights. Now it’s tulips. Protests in the country started in […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Balconies and Airstrikes Early on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry was insisting that the ceasefire in […]

NEED TO KNOW A Bright Spot Jordan has taken a stride in distancing itself from the political and humanitarian tumult of its […]

NEED TO KNOW Business As Usual After the attacks in the US over the weekend, the American presidential election is likely to […]

NEED TO KNOW The Scramble for Samarkand Longtime Uzbek strongman Islam Karimov wasn’t even cold in his grave before the geopolitical wrangling […]

NEED TO KNOW Berlin Redux Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is gearing up for regional elections in the city-state of […]

NEED TO KNOW Grand Delusions, Real Threats North Korean President Kim Jong-un works hard to keep a tight lid on the internal […]

NEED TO KNOW Anyone Here Non-Aligned? Questions surround the 17th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement scheduled to convene on the Venezuelan island […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Princes and Pilgrims Millions of people from across the globe are currently making their way to the holy […]

NEED TO KNOW I’ll Do It My Way British Prime Minister Theresa May keeps saying, “Brexit means Brexit.” But it turns out […]

NEED TO KNOW Once More, With Fairness Europe is calling for a recount in Gabon’s recent presidential election. It’s the latest escalation […]

NEED TO KNOW The Lasting Pivot US President Barack Obama’s last big trip to Asia ended this week with his visit to […]

NEED TO KNOW A Democracy Grows in China World leaders were in China Monday for a Group of 20 summit that reminded […]

NEED TO KNOW Two Twilights As US President Barack Obama manages the end of his tenure in office, he’s also arguably presiding […]

NEED TO KNOW Wars, Civil and Proxy Russia’s military excursions in Syria have not only tipped the balance of power in the […]