As part of his Indo-Pacific strategy, President Donald Trump signed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act and the Taiwan Assurance Act in December 2020. The purpose of the acts became clear in January ...

Imagine this scenario: you learn that a young woman is missing in your city. The next day, someone finds her body on the side of the highway. She has been stabbed dozens of times and is now ...

Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Both nations’ reluctance boils down to their dispute over a string of islands stretching from Hokkaido, Japan’s ...

Suraj Yengde is a post-doctoral fellow at the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability at the Harvard Kennedy School, the author of the bestselling book Caste Matters, and a ...

Even though scientists knew how to extract the alkaloid cocaine from the leaf, the indigenous communities in the Andean countries were the main group cultivating the plant. As the 20th century ...

Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, is one of the leading voices in the field of climate change in South Asia. Her work focuses on Indigeneity, the Himalayas, ...

Ecuador is hoping that a boom in the tourism industry will continue to serve as a pathway to a stronger economy, but could the plan be too ambitious? As the lower income Ecuadorians begin to prosper, ...

Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil and gas company, provided 45 percent of EU gas imports before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As European countries seek to condemn Russia’s actions, the ...

In times of macroeconomic uncertainty, environmental disruptions, and growing supermarket and retail power, the global food industry faces enormous consumer demand and supply chain pressures. Such ...

On June 9, 2020, Sri Lankans occupied the streets outside the US Embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, holding signs condemning the racism, ...

If one were to classify the employment process in the UAE as modern slavery, recruitment fees would serve as the first step towards enslavement. Even before arriving in the UAE, migrant workers find ...

The picture is a popular one: Cuban doctors born, raised, and trained on the island, working side-by-side with doctors in countries around the world, providing healthcare to patients and training to ...