Ukraine's Democracy Problem
Letter From Kiev's 217th Electoral District October 26, 2014 Alina Polyakova Summary: A militant nationalist and a crook walk into a bar. It might sound like the beginning of a clichéd joke, but in...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Ebola
Letter From Monrovia November 24, 2014 Javier Alvarez Summary: The Liberian government and international organizations have been most focused on containing Ebola, as they should be. The containment...
View ArticleCan Greenland Race Ahead?
Letter From Nuuk December 1, 2014 Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and Mads Nyvold Summary: In the run up to last week's snap election in Greenland, uranium mining was high on the agenda. But economic...
View ArticleA Casa Divided
Letter from Guerrero December 4, 2014 Nathaniel Parish Flannery Summary: The wave of antigovernment protests sweeping Mexico was set off by the disappearance and presumed deaths of 43 college...
View ArticleAbenomics Meets Womenomics
Transforming the Japanese Workplace January 29, 2015 Devin Stewart Summary: Working women have long struggled to make their way in Japan, even in comparison to their counterparts in other advanced...
View ArticleLibya's War-Weary Make Peace?
Letter from Misrata February 2, 2015 Frederic Wehrey Summary: Amid the political and communal divisions tearing apart Libya, the commercial hub of Misrata—and its pragmatic business community—offer...
View ArticleAn Elusive Peace in South Sudan
Letter from Bentiu February 3, 2015 Jérôme Tubiana Summary: In South Sudan's latest war, where alliances are made and broken at dizzying speed, there is little evidence that the recent ceasefire...
View ArticleTo Defeat ISIS, Get Iran on Board
Letter from Tehran February 8, 2015 Kayhan Barzegar Summary: U.S. President Barak Obama has set a difficult goal in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). To achieve it, he will...
View ArticleLesotho's Day of Truth
Letter from Maseru February 26, 2015 Will McGrath Summary: Earlier this month, embattled Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane addressed a raucous crowd of supporters in the rural district of Mokhotlong....
View ArticlePreparing for War in Lithuania
Letter From Vilnius March 10, 2015 Gregory Feifer Summary: From Klaipeda to Vilnius, Lithuanians are preparing for the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin turns from Crimea and the civil war in...
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