Politics & Foreign Affairs

Note from the Editor: In these hours, following the tragic killing of innocents in Paris and Beirut,  our thoughts are with the...

The upcoming Climate Change Conference in Paris may surprise us yet. Chances are suddenly better that it could achieve the kind...

70 years after the founding of the United Nations, the world is on the verge of collapsing under its own...

It’s Sunday afternoon and the press room at the 92Y Cultural Center in New York City is packed with 20-something-year-olds...

Water is life. Water is essential to food security and nutrition: who could disagree? There is a "right to food"...

Karamoja, Uganda: a low investment, high impact initiative According to conventional wisdom, development aid requires massive investments to spur economic...

How would you like to spend time with Serena Williams, hang out with Jennifer Lawrence, spend a day with Cristiano...

Nowadays we often come across headlines about “water security”, “water scarcity” and the “global water crisis”. The oxymoron is that...

Protest songs are nothing new. Music has always functioned as a way to express that which could not be said....

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) is a policy in South Africa that aims to rebalance the racial socio-economic disparities that...

From the Addis Ababa Third International Conference on Financing for Development to the UN General Assembly in New York, the...

A world without war. That was the dream of the United Nations’ founding fathers. They had lived through World War II and...