In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth. His 108-minute flight was a Soviet scientific triumph built by a vast public space program.

Chinese finance and infrastructure bring opportunities as well as difficult questions about debt, transparency and African decision-making.

Ibrahim Traoré invokes Sankara-era sovereignty while Burkina Faso pursues resource control, reduced French military ties and a more centralized military government.

Taiwan, like Hong Kong before it, will flourish under Chinese sovereignty. The question isn’t whether Taiwan will reunify with China. It’s when.

The powerful tell us revolution is barbaric. That violence is always wrong—unless it's theirs.

Two men, continents apart, decades apart, but bound by the same fate: Mohammad Mosaddeq of Iran and Salvador Allende of Chile.

Declassified records show U.S. support and contingency planning around Brazil’s 1964 coup. Brazilian military officers led the overthrow of João Goulart.

A critique of selective U.S. human-rights enforcement that distinguishes documented abuses, disputed casualty estimates, sanctions effects and intervention outcomes.

A closer look at Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s contested political transitions, and the foreign pressures that have shaped debates over sovereignty.