Category: World
Europe’s Funding Question Puts Tanzania’s Fragile Democracy on Trial
Every evening just before sunset, Salima Kitwana hobbles into her backyard holding a photograph. In the picture, her son Hemedi, wearing a green…
A new US-Iran war would end where the last one did
For all practical purposes, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding is over. The dispute over how to manage the Strait of Hormuz in the…
Does India’s Women’s Reservation Bill Shortchange Women Yet Again?
To say that the men scored over women yet again would be an understatement. To say that the women lost and men have…
MEXICO: ‘Our Call for Justice for Our Missing Loved Ones Must Reach the World Just as World Cup Goals Do’
CIVICUS speaks about efforts to use the 2026 FIFA World Cup to highlight Mexico’s enforced disappearance crisis with Ana Enamorado, a Honduran…
The Next UN Secretary-General Must Break Not Only the Glass Ceiling, but Also the Culture of Patronage
As the United Nations (UN) Security Council prepares for its first round of closed-door straw polls this month to select the tenth Secretary-General,…
The Houthis are increasingly setting their own agenda
In early July, an Iranian civilian aircraft landed in Houthi-controlled Sana’a, breaching a Saudi air blockade in place for nearly a decade. Then,…
The earthquake sprung Trump’s Venezuela trap
When the Trump administration decided to “run” Venezuela through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the aim was to keep things quiet following its January…
Euroskeptics in France, Germany suddenly gain steam in elections
The European reaction to an American pullback from its leading role in continental defense has sparked a drive to coordinate a pan-European response…
When Democrats were smearing socialists over war
In his message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Germany and thereby bringing the United States into World War I,…
Lindsey Graham, last great Cold War warrior, dead at 71
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who had just returned from another trip to Ukraine to pledge U.S. assistance to its war with Russia, has…
