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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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April 10, 2024
Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Thirty years ago, Rwanda’s government began a campaign to eradicate the country’s largest minority group. This Why It Matters episode discusses how in just one hundred days, 800,000 people in Rwanda were killed, while the rest of the world sat on the sidelines.
January 31, 2019
Turkey
The Most Dangerous New York Knick
The 7-foot center Enes Kanter has become a symbol of Turkey's never-ending purge—and a potential assassination target.
October 15, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
The New York Times and Israel (Again)
The New York Times, whose hostility to Israel is visible in both its news and its editorial pages, was at it again yesterday. In an editorial (about the symbolic vote in the UK parliament backing Pal…
September 21, 2015
United States
Policing and Securing New York City
Ray Kelly discusses his life fighting crime as New York's former police commissioner.
April 12, 2024
Health
Women This Week: Heightened Levels of Malnutrition for Women and Children
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 6 to April 12.
April 16, 2019
Republic of Congo
The Daughter of Republic of Congo's President and a $7 Million Apartment in New York
Globa1 Witness, a non-profit corruption watchdog, is reporting that the daughter of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, president of the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), purchased an apartment for $7 million i…
