It is impossible to be bored on Año Viejo (New Year’s Eve) in Ecuador’s capital city. The country blends rich traditions ...

The 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Trials, carried out by the Allied powers during postwar occupation, marked one of the first ...

In the second episode of the What Now series created by Auden Goldblatt, we catch up with BPR interview directors Ciara Leonard & Raghav Ramgopal on some very (mostly) serious news.

US Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is Michigan’s newly elected junior senator. After serving three successive terms representing Michigan’s 7th and 8th Congressional districts, she outperformed Kamala ...

In an era characterized by intense political polarization, it would seem bizarre to equate the far right and the far left. After all, political ideologies are often imagined as a straight line ...

At the crux of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a story of greatness and growth out of suffering and shame. From 1839 until 1949, China was subjected to defeat, intervention, and exploitation ...

Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not ...

Tech executives have spent the last two years making sweeping claims about what AI will mean for human labor. In a December 2025 study by the Harvard Business Review, 90 percent of executives surveyed ...

“Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state ...

Hailed as the “Miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s rapid growth transformed the economy of one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the largest and most innovative. Today, the country ...

AI startups have an unexpected business partner: the tiny Caribbean island polity of Anguilla. In 1980, Anguilla, a territory of the United Kingdom, was awarded the .ai domain name by the Internet ...

Accompanying the rise of populism and increased polarization across the world, many governmental institutions are being scrutinized for both their structure and their actions. Among these institutions ...