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Meet the American Supporting Myanmar's Controversial Pro-Buddhist Movement
He's a self-proclaimed "white American national" who has no family connections to Myanmar and has never visited the country. He's not an expert on its politics either, he tells me -- which becomes...
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If Detroit Were a Country, Would It Be a Failed State?
The city of Detroit has sorrows to spare. Its government -- officially, as of Thursday -- can't pay its bills. Its police don't arrive in time to stop criminals, and its ambulances don't arrive in...
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Is the World’s Most Wanted Nazi War Criminal in Syria?
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center launched a poster campaign in Germany this week in an attempt to track down the last surviving Nazi war criminals. "Late, but not too late," the posters...
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How Much Does it Cost for the Pope to Meet the Poor?
Today Pope Francis paid a visit to one of Brazil's notorious favelas, the slums that house more than 20 percent of Brazil's population. Walking amongst the shanty town -- an area so dangerous it's...
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Marina Berlusconi: Feminist Icon?
He's been counted down-and-out prematurelybefore, so those predicting that a decision on a tax-fraud conviction -- slated to come down from Italy's Supreme Court as early as Thursday -- will finally...
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Why Letting Foreigners Invest in Mexico’s State-Run Energy Giant Is About...
It was not shocking news, exactly, when Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed Mondaythat foreign companies like ExxonMobil and Shell be able to invest in Petróleos Mexicanos, the troubled...
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Al Jazeera: Give Us a Chance, America!
What does one Nashville soul food restaurateur think about Al Jazeera -- the Qatari-funded TV network, once vilified by George W. Bush as "hateful propaganda" - setting up shop in his hometown? Let's...
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With the Olympics Coming to Tokyo, Will Japan Finally Brush Up on Its English?
The news this weekend that Tokyo will once again play host to the Olympics after a nearly five-decade hiatus was greeted with jubilation on the streets of Japan, where many saw the decision as a vote...
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Is Al Jazeera America Simply CNN, Minus Wolf Blitzer?
It's been just under a month since Al Jazeera Americafirst hit the airwaves, and what a month it's been -- with the Syria story lurching from seemingly imminent U.S. strikes to a looming congressional...
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Saudi Arabia's First Female Filmmaker: We Found Wonderful Girls -- but They...
That the first feature film shot in Saudi Arabia (a country with no commercial theaters) was directed by a woman (in a country where women still famously cannot drive) would have been enough to spark...
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Good News: The United States Still Isn't a Failed State
Yes, the U.S. government shutdown is equal parts embarrassing and infuriating. Yes, it is putting the kibosh on services as basic as food programs and flu shots. But no, the United States is still not...
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NFL Receiver Donte’ Stallworth’s Secret Life as a Foreign Policy Wonk
Donté Stallworth is currently a free agent who has been a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, and the...
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They Love Twerking in Tunisia: Mapping the World's Most Popular YouTube Videos
After watching the world's most popular YouTube videos, I've reached one conclusion: Everyone loves Miley Cyrus. Well, almost everyone. The map above is a rough guide to the popularity of the singer's...
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Obama's Fed Nominee Was Pivoting to Asia Long Before He Was
Asian markets seemed pleased by the news, which broke Tuesday evening (or Wednesday morning, Asia time) that President Obama would nominate Janet Yellen for the position of Fed chair this afternoon....
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'It's Our Imperative to Get on the Ground': An Exit Interview With AP's First...
When Jean Lee became the Associated Press's first North Korea bureau chief in 2012, she anticipated many of the challenges she'd face while in country: the trouble accessing places typically...
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Whatever Happened to Asian Hopping Zombies?
If you, like me, were born in the 1980s, and if you, like me, had a grandparent who was into Hong Kong cinema, you might have vague memories of this guy: The above is a Chinese hopping zombie, or...
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Twitter Is Loving the Rob Ford Crack-Smoking Debacle
After months of speculation -- and days after police confirmed the existence of a long-rumored incriminating video -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford finally admitted at a press conference Tuesday to having...
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How Poland Became an Eastern European Education Powerhouse
The OECD's test score rankings of 15-year-olds around the globe came out Tuesday, and, as usual a familiar set of faces tops the charts. Shanghai (which, as many have pointed out, is not a country),...
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How to Tell If You’re Eating Fox When You Meant to Eat Donkey
Whether in Britain or in China, no one wants to think they're eating a familiar meat product only to discover they're really eating an exotic, as one unfortunate Wal-Mart customer in northern China...
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Hey Lorde, Just Who Are These Maybach-Driving New Zealanders?
It's been a little over a year since the debut of "Royals," the smash hit from the waifish New Zealand songstress Lorde, and what a year it's been. Having charmed both critics and listeners around the...
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Meet the Handsome Japanese Reporter Stealing the Show in Bangkok
Just call him the Japanese Anderson Cooper. With his tight black T-shirt, dashing safety gear, and steely gaze, Fuji Television reporter Daijiro Enami* is a younger, East Asian version of CNN's famed...
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Think Crimea’s Referendum Looks Dirty? You Should Have Seen the Anschluss...
It was 1791, in the middle of the French revolution, when the good people of thepicturesque papal town of Avignon (located in what is now southeastern France), found themselvesfacing a question. For...
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Status-Anxious CEOs Will Sacrifice Profits for a Knighthood
Picture the platonic, if slightly exaggerated, ideal of a CEO: a focused leader of their subordinates, a relentless pursuer of profit -- that is, of course, unless he or she gets distracted along the...
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The Delicate Art of Managing an Authoritarian Protest
Ever since China planted an oil rig in a disputed area of the South China Sea in early May, the leaders of Vietnam have been searching for leverage against their giant northern neighbor, which shows...
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Bye Bye Bluefin: Navy Drone Sub Yanked from Hunt for MH370
A 17-foot-long drone submarine the United States dispatched to help trawl the Indian Ocean for signs of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been pulled out of the hunt, at least temporarily, which means...
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