Cuba’s charm and revolutionary ideals mask a nation struggling with poverty, scarcity, and the human cost of decades-long isolation.

Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but they have appeared in the war in the Middle East with strikes on ...

US President Trump says he attacked Iran to eliminate a threat. How he sees the war ending is much less clear.

Eva Golinger is an American attorney and journalist who was a legal advisor to former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. She’s also the author of the best-selling book, “Confidante of ‘Tyrants:’ The ...

Key war updates include missile exchanges between Iran and Israel, strikes across the Gulf, and growing deployments by international forces.

It’s no secret that private, for-profit prison corporations have accumulated substantial wealth from the U.S. criminal justice system. But another, relatively unknown, aspect of their reach is their ...

Thirty years ago, on June 4, 1989, there were free elections in Poland – the first multiparty elections since WWII. It was the beginning of a cascade of events that culminated in the collapse of all ...

There is a well-established tradition in the social sciences and, more generally, in the popular media to worry about the harmful impacts of excessive population growth. In the post-World War II era, ...

As concentration camp expert Andrea Pitzer recently confirmed, migrant detention centers in the United States are concentration camps. But that’s not the question we should be focusing on. Rather, ...

Over 25 years ago, during my first year in a doctoral program, I recall having a conversation with one of my White male peers. We were part of a cohort of five students: 2 White males, 1 White female, ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

A much-heralded demographic boom in Africa has the potential to make the continent a manufacturing powerhouse by 2050. But to take advantage of this rising tide and attract foreign investors, African ...