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Tested: Preparing for COVID-19

February 27, 2020
COVID-19 has spread around the globe, with more than 80,000 cases reported in 45 nations, the bulk of them in China. The World Health Organization has yet to declare a global pandemic but public health agencies and researchers around the world prepare while sharing data and findings. A challenge is...

Opportunities, Not Oppression, to Stop Illegal Mining in the Peruvian Amazon

February 18, 2016
Environmental degradation and human-rights abuses are often associated with small, illegal mining operations around the world. Peru, among the world's major gold producers, offers a case study on how local development could help solving a global problem. About 20 percent of Peru’s gold...

The US and Afghanistan Ponder Next Steps

July 20, 2017
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, charged with the task of deciding whether to send more US troops into Afghanistan, must determine the mission, the level of support from allies and other partners in the region, and the readiness of the Afghan government and its forces to withstand an...

Global Conspiracy Theory Attacks

November 19, 2019
With local news in decline and more legitimate news behind internet paywalls, readers turn to social media where conspiracy theories are plentiful. Some conspiracy theories emerge from anxiety, such as parents worrying about the side effects of vaccinations for children. Others are deliberate...

Globalization: Europe's Wary Embrace

November 1, 2004
From anti-McDonald's crusader Jose Bové's campaign, to violent clashes between Genoan police and demonstrators, to the anti-globalization theme's growing popularity with left-wing socialist and right-wing nationalist candidates, the idea might seem to be dominating the European...

Israel Tries to Expand Power in Africa

April 10, 2018
Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been intent on nurturing diplomatic ties with sub-Saharan African nations. He was the first Israeli prime minister in three decades to travel to Africa and also attended the Kenyan president’s inauguration and a summit of West African states. About...

Irresponsible Superpowers Must Cooperate

May 5, 2020
Governments that endured the SARS pandemic in 2003 were generally more prepared for Covid-19. Such pandemics emerge with little warning, challenging a global multilateral system largely structured around collective security and trade. Both diseases – linked with globalization, a complex phenomenon...

Bit of Malay Culture Is Now Vanishing Under Muslim Rules

April 21, 2006
Introduced to Southeast Asia in the 13th century, Islam gradually supplanted Buddhism and Hinduism, but co-existed with ancient traditions over the centuries. Since the 1970s, however, fundamentalist Islam has spiked in multicultural countries such as Malaysia, with Muslim students and scholars...
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