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March 8, 2023

United States
Meet Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican Presidential Candidate

The venture capitalist and Woke Inc. author announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 

Vivek Ramaswamy

June 20, 2014

Middle East and North Africa
Segovia: A New Player in Cash Transfers

For several years now I’ve been following the progress of an innovative new philanthropy: GiveDirectly. Its cofounders, Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, started the organization in 2008 while doing the…

Mobile MPESA Cropped

May 31, 2019

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: Electoral Gains Across the Globe

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, covering May 18 to May 28, was compiled by Rebecca…

Women at a polling station during the first phase of general election in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, 2019.

October 25, 2019

Religion
Kenyan Theologian Who Elevated African Religion Passes Away

The Kenyan John Mbiti, an Anglican priest, theologian, and academic, died on October 5 at the age of eighty-seven. He led the reappraisal of traditional African religions that sees them as equal to other world religions. He argued that traditional African religions were specifically congruent with Christianity, and that Christianity was more than Europe.

The Ecumenical Centre and Church is pictured on November 21, 2008 in Abuja, Nigeria.

September 18, 2020

United States
Happy 73rd Birthday to the U.S Air Force!

The United States Air Force marks seventy-three years of service.

Air Force

March 19, 2019

Women and Women's Rights
Womenomics Is Flipping the Script on Men in Japan

In addressing legal barriers and challenging entrenched gender stereotypes, Japan is pushing for gender equality in the workplace and growing its economy.

Commuters go home by train at Tokyo station March 23, 2011.