As part of his Indo-Pacific strategy, President Donald Trump signed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act and the Taiwan Assurance Act in December 2020. The purpose of the acts became clear in January ...

Ecuador is hoping that a boom in the tourism industry will continue to serve as a pathway to a stronger economy, but could the plan be too ambitious? As the lower income Ecuadorians begin to prosper, ...

Even though scientists knew how to extract the alkaloid cocaine from the leaf, the indigenous communities in the Andean countries were the main group cultivating the plant. As the 20th century ...

Imagine this scenario: you learn that a young woman is missing in your city. The next day, someone finds her body on the side of the highway. She has been stabbed dozens of times and is now ...

Little of the cobalt mined in the DRC is processed domestically or on the continent. Instead, the raw material is shipped to China for refining. The journey between these mining and refining hubs is ...

On June 9, 2020, Sri Lankans occupied the streets outside the US Embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, holding signs condemning the racism, ...

In a world that is quick to speak and even quicker to anger, even peace itself begins to resemble the violence it aims to cease. Amidst discussions and political promises that cry for “peace in the ...

A public interest technologist, Bruce Schneier is the author of the internationally renowned blog "Schneier on Security" and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Your profile ...

Vivek Maru is the CEO and founder of Namati, which advances social and environmental justice by building a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law. Namati works on the ground in six ...

Two hundred and fifty thousand workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon are currently struggling to survive in an exploitative system. Conflicts within the country due to an economic recession and ...

Amidst global discussion of the increasingly competitive dynamic emerging between China and the United States, Papua New Guinea (PNG) represents a potential battlefield. As the country works to ...

Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil and gas company, provided 45 percent of EU gas imports before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As European countries seek to condemn Russia’s actions, the ...