Some countries are getting rid of outdated blasphemy laws, while others are ramping up persecutions.
Commentaries
While the international community propped up kleptocratic generals, South Sudan's social entrepreneurs took matters into their own hands. The future of the country belongs to them.
If he wants to save his legacy on Africa, Barack Obama will have to be more than a shill for U.S. security firms and corporations.
Barack Obama is headed to Ethiopia. Will he speak up for the journalists and activists locked up by Washington's "war on terror" ally?
The unfolding intervention against the Islamic State shows that oil doesn't just guide U.S. foreign policy. It constrains our ways of thinking about it.
People from Seattle to Fiji are filing lawsuits over global warming — and they just might have a case.
Greece and Germany don’t belong on the same continent, let alone in the same currency union.
As Cuba and the United States continue down the road of reconciliation, they must still avoid the bumps.
Though this nuclear deal is a victory for international diplomacy, the United States still has a ways to go before their relations with Iran are truly normalized.
Israel insists that Gaza isn't under blockade. So why are humanitarian aid vessels still turned away?