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America’s forgotten allies in Syria
By Mahmoud Berkhdan - Mar 18, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 18, 2018 23:20
AFRIN, SYRIA — On January 20, Turkey began targeting northern Syria with air strikes and heavy shelling in a campaign that it claims is desi ...
The double helix of Chinese history
By Denise Y. Ho - Mar 18, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 18, 2018 23:19
BEIJING — Now that China’s National People’s Congress has voted — 2,958 to two — to abolish presidential term limits, Xi Jinping could rule ...
A new deal for South Africa
By Brian Levy - Mar 18, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 18, 2018 23:18
CAPE TOWN — A month has passed since Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of the African National Congress (ANC), replaced Jacob Zuma as South Africa’s ...
Food security’s social network
By Leah Samberg - Mar 17, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 17, 2018 23:23
MINNEAPOLIS — In 2015, when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were officially adopted, the clock began ticking on an ambitiou ...
Engineering a more responsible digital future
By Dirk Helbing - Mar 17, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 17, 2018 23:22
ZURICH — The world is being battered by technological disruption, as innovations such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), r ...
The UN’s crimes of omission
By Nabil Fahmy - Mar 15, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 15, 2018 22:28
CAIRO — When the United Nations was founded, its primary goals, as stated in its Charter’s preamble, included saving future generations from ...
The perils of public media funding
By Marius Dragomir - Mar 14, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 14, 2018 23:02
BUDAPEST — Hungary’s state media corporation, MTVA, operated last year with a budget of roughly $309 million, most of it coming from the gov ...
The future of Putin’s illusion
By Sergey Aleksashenko - Mar 12, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 12, 2018 23:25
WASHINGTON DC — The outcome of Russia’s presidential election on March 18 is a foregone conclusion: the incumbent, Vladimir Putin, will win ...
The future of fish farming
By Linus Blomqvist - Mar 12, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 12, 2018 23:23
NEW HAVEN — Demand for seafood is skyrocketing, and will continue to rise throughout this century. ...
Why does childbirth still kill?
By Katherine Semrau - Mar 11, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 11, 2018 22:51
Each year, more than 5.6 million women and newborns around the world die during pregnancy, childbirth, or in the first month of life. ...

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