This is a part of a series of dispatches correspondent Tom Murphy is writing from New York during the U.N. General Assembly…
A decision by the White House to increase the number of refugees that the United States can accept is not…
By sheer geographic luck, the United States does not have to deal with the increasing inflow of refugees from the…
This year is shaping up to be the hottest year ever and July just set the record for the hottest…
It’s looking more likely that a global climate change deal could happen by year’s end in Paris with the United…
The World Bank’s influence is waning. Some point to the emerging Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as evidence of the body’s…
More than 40 countries joined China in forming the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Notably absent from the body meant…
As the Disneyland measles outbreak in the United States demonstrated – if not the two-to-three million child deaths from easily…
The international affairs budget in the White House request for fiscal year 2016 received an unexpected boost yesterday. The Obama…
Syrian refugees struggle to survive the winter with no heat, little access to clean water and not enough food, as…