Fifty years ago, Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean cabinet minister and ambassador, was assassinated on the streets of Washington, DC, alongside a young colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Their former colleagues,…

In 1948, the U.S. spent what amounts to $150 billion today rebuilding Western Europe after World War II. It worked, but the real story is complicated. This is a close…

The United States has bombed Iran and intervened in Venezuela. These policies contrast sharply with the earlier promises of Donald Trump that verged on isolationism. When he was running for…

Fifteen years ago, on 11 March 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that still impacts the world today. Thomas A.…

One year ago, the Trump Administration ceased all foreign aid and refugee resettlement and subsequently closed the US Agency for International Development. Halting donations from the world’s biggest provider of…

Windham World Affairs Council will screen the documentary “Borderland: The Line Within” at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St., on Sunday, October 26, from 5 to 7 p.m. The film…