The White House snubs Georgia, seeks dividends in Armenia and Azerbaijan while undermining Russia in its backyard.

In recent years, Western countries have been very reliant on sanctions as a tool of foreign policy and I think it’s a mistake. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that sanctions are law ...

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea showed how spreading a narrative can erode sovereignty. The same playbook can now be seen ...

When a lie about Haitians in Ohio spread nationwide, a pioneering Haitian-American journalist was forced to ask if belonging will always be conditional, that exile is not about geography, it’s the ...

Myanmar’s authoritarian rulers are holding “sham” elections in the midst of civil war in a bid for global recognition ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

When he saw the Tunisian coast guard coming, Fabrice Ngo knew he wouldn’t make it to Italy that day. The young Cameroonian had pushed off from the shore of the Tunisian city of Sfax in a small metal ...

In the criminal world, a key statistic has indeed suggested that for several years European crooks have been falling behind.