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A U.S. Coast Guard sailor stands guard over more than 40,000 pounds of Latin American cocaine seized in 2007 and valued at around $500 million.
The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.
Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?
A projection of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looms over author Micah Sifry (left) and activist Daniel Ellsberg during a video conference in June 2010.
WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations
A 1900 poster shows President William McKinley campaigning for the maintenance of a gold standard for the dollar, which he said gave Americans prosperity and prestige.
Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus to help understand its particularly deadly effects.
Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again
A collection of packaged food items.
Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
British scientist Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts
Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which led to the signing of the Paris Agreement.
Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen
Stalin's boots are all that remain of his statue in Budapest.
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
A U.S. Tank in Karbala, Iraq, May 2004. The American experiences in Afghanistan and especially Iraq over the past eight years have forced the U.S. military to rethink how it approaches counterinsurgent warfare. After some successes in Iraq, will the new counterinsurgency doctrine also work in Afghanistan?
From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner
A marooned boat on what used to be the shore of the shrinking Aral Sea. After their 1991 independence, there was a guarded optimism surrounding the five countries of Central Asia. Today, despite the region's strategic and petroleum importance, the future of these new states appears beached by struggling economies, corruption, authoritarian politics, and the global drug trade.
Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order
A protester in New York City after the recent passage of Proposition 8 in California, limiting the marriage rights of same-sex couples in that state.
The Real Marriage Revolution
man with giant crab
A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters
The Winter Olympic Torch at Salt Lake City, 2002.
Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present
United States soldier distributes food aid to a Afghanistan province
Food for Peace Must Remain an American Priority
Abandoned nuclear weapons depot in Northern Germany.
What About the WMDs that DO Exist?
Flags at Hague Convention
The Politics of International Adoption
U.S. Army Maj. Robert Rodriguez shakes hands with a local child.
Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies
American flag on fire.
Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America
Mourning banners hung at the south gate of Beijing university in the aftermath of the 1989 June 4th incident in Beijing
Survivor: the Chinese Communist Party
U.S. Marines holding Sandino's Flag - Nicaragua 1932.
The Costs of Intervention
A 1963 photo of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.
In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope