Death squads in the Philippines In recent days Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would withdraw his country from the treaty governing the International Criminal...
Egypt’s staged election Egypt will hold a presidential election at the end of this month. But there’s little drama about who will actually win. President Abdel-Fatah...
China’s ‘one-child’ legacy A little less than four decades ago China’s population was nearing the 1 billion mark. In 1979 this led the Communist Party to institute the...
Tiny Guyana threatened by ‘oil curse’ Most people probably know little about the tiny South American nation of Guyana. In the U.S., it made headlines back in the late 1970s after an...
After ISIS, the Kurdish question The Kurds have played a key role in the Syrian war. With U.S. military aid, a Kurdish militia called the YPG has done a large share of the ground...
Olympic diplomacy in Korea The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea have kicked off with official luge, biathlon and ski jumping training sessions. But these games may...
Brazil prison conditions fuel gang crisis Back in January 2017, Brazil experienced a wave of massive and grisly prison riots. More than 130 inmates were killed in a few weeks in fighting...
Debating overpopulation Overpopulation has been debated since British economist Thomas Malthus famously warned in 1798 that humans could reproduce far faster than they could...
India’s missing girls In the next decade, India may pass China to become the world’s most populous country. But there’s something odd about India’s population....
Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. speaks out On this special edition of Global Journalist, we take a step back from international news to hear from Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer-winning...
