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A carved wooden mural in Livingstone, Zambia.
The Year of Africa
On the left, the flag of the United Nations. On the right, the flag of the United States of America.
The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic
A painting by Siu Luna.
Another Silent Spring
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
Thai epidemiologists conduct active case investigations for COVID-19 during the Ramadan fasting period.
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
2,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv protest a proposed coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Sculpture of Donald Trump ripping up the Paris climate agreement.
Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration.
The Fate of the Kurds
Image of Donald Trump with words Sanctions are Coming
A Century of Sanctions
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
A young Paraguayan boy receives a vaccination during the 2014 'Vaccination Week In The Americas.'
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
Men and women in Karnataka, India, voting in 2009 General Election.
Right-Wing Politics in India
Over one million people participated in anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong in June 2019.
Hong Kong in Protest
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
A celebration of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Sudan in Crisis
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
Thousands of protesters in Yemen's capital city, Sana'a, in 2011.
Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
Graffiti in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now
President Donald J. Trump addressing the 72nd Session of the United Nations.
Human Rights at a Crossroads
Armenian protesters in April 2018.
Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution