Some of the first systematic attempts in the world to pursue truth and justice for past human rights abuses have taken place in Latin America. While the majority of the region’s governments successfully transitioned to democracies in the last few decades, ...
Since it was set up in 2002 to try genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been plagued with difficulties. The ICC is argued to be an improvement on the previous system of ad hoc tribunals, but the cour ...
From Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam, Americans are acutely aware of the pain that a small dedicated guerrilla band can inflict on a conventional military. Throughout history, numerous great powers and conquering armies have struggled, sometimes unsuccessf ...
The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez raises myriad questions for the political future of that country. Presidential elections will soon take place, and for the first time in more than 14 years, the future of Venezuelan leadership is uncertain. As ...
Bono fights poverty in Africa. Oprah builds schools and promotes women’s rights. George Clooney is arrested for protesting Sudanese human rights violations while Sean Penn weighs in on Haiti relief efforts. What has come to be called celebrity diplomacy a ...
Today's grandmothers worldwide are younger, healthier, and better educated than grandmothers have ever been, and are using their power to fight for a better future for the world’s children. Grandmothers from India are becoming solar engineers to bring ...
From the war in Afghanistan to the protests and upheaval of the Arab Spring, the events of the past decade have demonstrated the substantial force that religion plays in global affairs. In a world significantly influenced by religion, Douglas Johnston argu ...
Students in the United States trail their counterparts in more than twenty other industrialized nations in math and science achievement. Additionally, the humanities—while still popular in elite colleges and universities—have recently experienced a substan ...
In the first decade of the 21st century, there was no shortage of ground-breaking news in the United States—the Bush-Gore presidential election, the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the global financial crisis. As president of ABC News d ...
The world's women are too often viewed as victims of poverty and illiteracy, of violence and seemingly unbreakable cultural traditions, and for generations, women's issues have existed on the margins of politics. Now, in a time of transformative ...
