What Kim Jong Un's Health Rumors Teach Us About North Korea
If you have been following news recently out of the Korean Peninsula, you may have seen a report that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was gravely ill. He had, according to this report, undergone hear...
27 Apr 202019min
How COVID-19 is Accelerating Geopolitical Shifts| Interview With Ian Bremmer
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global order was poised for disruption. Global institutions were seemingly getting weaker, the United States under the Trump administration was abdicating its tr...
23 Apr 202026min
Why the WHO Needs U.S. Support to Fight Coronavirus Spread | Congressman Ami Bera's View
Congressman Ami Bera is a Democrat from California who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is chair of the subcommittee on Asia and Pacific. He is also a medical doctor who has long cham...
20 Apr 202026min
Why Don't More People Use Clean Cookstoves?
For years, the global development community has struggled over the problem of dirty burning cookstoves. These are typically rudimentary stoves that burn wood or other biomass -- and in the process emi...
16 Apr 202031min
Venezuela Plunges Deeper into Crisis
On March 26th, the United States Department of Justice did something very unusual. In a press conference, Attorney General William Barr unsealed indictments against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro...
9 Apr 202030min
The Coronavirus Human Rights Crackdown
During this state of emergency, some governments -- many in fact -- are using this time as a pretext to further consolidate power, crack down on a free press, and restrict civil liberties. This is ha...
6 Apr 202030min
How Are Different Countries Handling COVID-19? | A Comparison of Political Systems
As I record this, we are nearing the one million mark of reported cases of COVID-19. Although the spread is distributed unevenly, nearly every country on earth has now reported cases of COVID-19. It ...
2 Apr 202032min
COVID-19 and Humanitarian Crises -- How Will NGOs Respond?
Before the coronavirus became a global pandemic, the world was confronting a series of humanitarian crises; ranging from wars to natural disasters. Much of the responsibility for providing emergency r...
30 Mars 202029min
