Wary of the coronavirus, North Korea has all but shut its borders, choking its economic lifelines. How grim a toll might the disease take? A wedding in Pyongyang (Photo by Sarah Edmonds) North Korea vaulted back into international headlines this month, with Western...
By Jonathan Lyons For at least the past 20 years, Western political leaders, foreign policy analysts and the news media have speculated over an intriguing and, to many, alarming mystery: Is the Islamic Republic of Iran capable of building an atomic bomb? And if so,...
By Robert Holloway The United States and Russia have scrapped a disarmament treaty that removed thousands of nuclear weapons from Europe. Influential voices led by the head of the United Nations now fear a new arms race. That possibility might be more chilling to...
By Malcolm Davidson India and Pakistan have traded artillery and gunfire for decades across the front-line that separates the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. Last week that conflict escalated rapidly when India sent warplanes to strike inside Pakistan for the...
By Elaine Monaghan When Time magazine awarded its “Person of the Year” title for 2018 to a group of individuals killed at work in a mass shooting, slain in their own consulate, imprisoned for doing their job or otherwise silenced, it was the first time the publication...
