Ethiopia's Fragile Experiment: Can Africa's Second-Most Populous Nation Hold Together?
The Tigray War that consumed northern Ethiopia between 2020 and 2022 was, by the measures that humanitarian organizations use to assess catastrophe, o…
The Gulf's Soft Power Play: How Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia Are Rewriting Their Global Image
The 2022 FIFA World Cup that Qatar hosted was the most expensive sporting event in recorded history. The figure most cited, somewhere north of two hun…
India's Infrastructure Decade: Building the Foundations of a Future Superpower
The highway running south from Delhi toward Agra used to take four hours on a good day. On a bad day, which was most days, it took six. The Yamuna Exp…
Colombia After the Peace Deal: What a Decade of Implementation Actually Looks Like
The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC was received, when it was signed, as the end of the longest-running armed confl…
South Africa's Energy Emergency and What It Says About the Country's Future
Load shedding. The South African term for scheduled power cuts entered common usage sometime around 2008 and has not left since. At its worst, it has …
Morocco's Pivot to the South: How Rabat Is Rewriting Its Role in Africa
Morocco spent much of the late twentieth century looking north across the Mediterranean, toward Europe, toward the trade relationships and diplomatic …
The New American City: How Migration Within the US Is Redrawing the Map
Somewhere between 2020 and now, the mental geography of American cities shifted. The hierarchy that held for most of the twentieth century, with New Y…
Uganda at a Crossroads: Oil, Debt, and the Question of Who Pays for Development
The pipeline has been years in the making and, for the Ugandan government, years in the promising. When oil was discovered in the Albertine Rift in we…
The Americas Report: Democracy Under Pressure Across the Hemisphere
From the northern reaches of Canada to the southern tip of Patagonia, democratic institutions across the Western Hemisphere face a moment of profound …