Power to the Oppressor: The Venezuelan-Security Council Paradox
U.N. representatives for Venezuela, including Foreign Minister Rafael Ramirez, right, celebrate after being elected to the Security Council. Picture by...
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How the Republicans Might Have Accidentally Helped Obama Get Closer to a Deal with Iran
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Picture by Maxim Malinovsky | AFP/Getty Images After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu’s March...
Trouble in Paradise: The Island President Under Attack
Former president Mohammad Nasheed being dragged to court on Feb. 23. Picture by Sinan Hussain | AP The Maldives...
Time for India to Take Down Dawood Ibrahim
Indian Security Forces. Picture by Scoot Clarskon Recent reports suggest that the underworld figure with terrorist links is a bigger...
Venezuela’s Maduro must take the first step toward admitting that he has a problem
Nicolas Maduro. Picture by Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom | ABr There is a common theme among leaders of oppressive regimes around...
Latin America: A Culture of Violence?
The Guatemala-Honduras Border. Photograph by Meridith Kohut | The New York Times On April 17, 2014, the United Nations Office...
South Asia: Battle Ground Between ISIS & al-Qaeda
ISIS flag (left), al-Qaeda flag (right) Since the video statement by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri on September 3 announcing...
Boko Haram: What Are We Doing?
Photograph by Ali Kaya/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based terrorist network, has wreaked havoc in West Africa...
The Fate of Badawi
Picture of Raif Badawi (Arabic: رائف بدوي), a Saudi Arabian writer and activist. Picture by Ensaf Haidar |PEN International With...
