Ideas

Refugees are landing on the island of Samos in staggering numbers. Once there, they face grim living conditions, local hostility, and futures of endless waiting.

Hundreds of news organizations have followed the lead of the Boston Globe, issuing editorials today calling out the U.S. President for his increasingly shrill and violent rhetoric against the press.

Since their mainstreaming with the rest of Pakistan, the people of FATA are embracing the upcoming general elections in Pakistan with unprecedented zeal and enthusiasm.

As the North Korea and US talks begin at the 2018 Singapore Summit, Don Baker reflects on the barriers to be overcome and precursors necessary to finally bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.

June 9, 2018 — German Chancellor Angela Merkel posted this image on her Instagram account, taken at the G-7 Summit in Charlevoix, Quebec. The G7 consist of Canada,…

As protests and resignations grip Slovakia in the wake of the murder of an investigative journalist and the crackdown on a reporter looking into the murder, GRC director Peter Klein writes this open letter to the Prime Minister of Slovakia.

As the new U.S. Embassy moved to Jerusalem on May 14th, and Israeli soldiers opened fire on many of the thousands of Palestinians and Hamas operatives attempting to cross the militarized Gaza border fence, Joel Bernstein contributed this reflection on his time in Israel and his thoughts on the future of the country.

Daniel Ellsberg turns his attention back on the weapons that continue to threaten the future of humanity through in his new book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of the Nuclear War Planner.”

People took to Twitter after President Donald Trump evoked the world’s fury by referring to African countries and Haiti as “shithole countries.”

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who covered the Haiti earthquake, responds to President Donald Trump’s racist comments on Haiti and Africa.

Jacky Rowland and Nicole Barrett reflect on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia – the first war crimes court since the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II.