The Global Atlas

Every year around Thanksgiving, it is typical, if not cliché, to sit around the table and give reasons to be thankful. This year, I’m thank...

U.S.-Iran relations in recent weeks have been at their highest point in probably the last 4 decades, leaving many optimistic about continuin...

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief after President Obama's speech last night, a speech in which Obama indicated that a vote ...

Over the last week, The Global Atlas’s metaphorical lights have been off as the three lead contributors were either out of town, dealing wi...

GHANA—In a remote village hours from Tamale, USAID worker Valerie DeFillipo and her colleagues arrived to a warm welcome from the small ...

The last round of negotiations in 2010.  State Department Photo by Michael Gross An entrenched stalemate persists between Israelis and ...

We've often heard the familiar warnings that the world's natural resources dwindle year after year, inching humanity closer to a po...

Last November, as delineated in a past article , Israel launched a military operation targeting Islamist militants--chiefly Hamas--and thei...