This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From August 2017 to January 2018, an estimated 650,000 Rohingyas, out of a population of a million, fled from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh to escape a campaign of arson, rape,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the protracted crisis in Northeastern Nigeria seems to be making a turn toward improvement, a wave of militant attacks in 2017 paired with ongoing constraints around limited access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One year ago, NGO executives and aid agency leaders were imagining what Brexit and a newly elected President Donald Trump might mean for their work and for the world. Today…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year is the moment of truth for the Group of 20’s growth agenda. The leading rich and developing nations that comprise the G20 made 1,000 structural reform commitments back…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reforming the UN: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres assumed his five-year term exactly one year ago, putting reform, prevention, and peace at the heart of his agenda. Delivering on the Sustainable Development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Handshake is developing a new online platform stored securely on the blockchain to help ensure safe and just working conditions for the some 150 million migrant workers worldwide. We don’t want to make any assumptions about this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to science policy, we should take President Trump at his word. Trump administration prohibited officials at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention from using seven words…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before adding an international organization to its platform, YourCause team properly vets each organization to make sure that funds are being properly used for philanthropic activity. Here are this month’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We define an episode of state-led mass killing as the death of at least 1,000 noncombatant civilians over the course of a year or less due to deliberate actions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In May of this year, I documented an increase in tax sheltering activity that should trouble anyone dedicated to conservation: tax-shelter promoters and some landowners are abusing a tax deduction intended…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each year, the U.S. spends nearly $40 billion on prisons. Yet the return on investment is not good as nearly 80 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within five years.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The fact is, the US has always been an unreliable world citizen when it comes to climate change diplomacy. We have always been extremely demanding, with exceedingly small “win sets” available for…