Month: April 2022

Why North Korea is ramping up missile tests again

North Korea’s second missile test in a week is increasing the pressure on President Joe Biden to respond, inching the

The generational grief of colonization

“In Guam, even the dead are dying,” Chamorro author and activist Julian Aguon writes in his new book The Properties

Japan’s Olympic hopes rest on a successful Covid-19 vaccine drive

Officials in Japan say a successful coronavirus vaccination drive is vital to the country’s ability to host the delayed 2020

Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough

The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world,

Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.

Facebook’s sudden move on Wednesday to cut Australians off from the news (and the rest of the world from Australian

Myanmar’s pro-democracy protest movement is strengthening

Myanmar saw its largest nationwide protests since the military coup earlier this month, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating

Biden is allowing asylum seekers caught by Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program to cross the border

The Biden administration has begun allowing tens of thousands of asylum seekers who were forced to wait in Mexico for

Biden is using his economic plan to challenge China

The dire warning implicit in President Joe Biden’s more than $2 trillion American Jobs Plan — which promises to rebuild

The US may still be helping Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war after all

In February, President Joe Biden announced that he was ending America’s “offensive” support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, six

Haitian civil society leaders have a plan for the country’s future. It doesn’t involve the US.

The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse last week has left a dangerous power vacuum in the country. Three men