Global Events

This weekend, I'm hosting an hour-long special on the BBC World Service, looking back at that wild revolutionary moment in the cultural and political life of America. And really the world.

I met some fascinating people in San Francisco making this radio documentary for the BBC, and I want to share with you some of what they told me. Because when you look around America and the world in 2017, it's hard not to think back [...]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ambitious plans to streamline and restructure the State Department. And the first thing on the chopping block could be the war crimes office.

Foreign Policy magazine reported that a member of Tillerson's team informed the Office of Global Criminal Justice Special Coordinator Todd Buchwald that he and his staff were being reassigned.

“I think this is a very unfortunate step because what it says to the world is the [...]

The Washington Post's Moscow bureau chief, David Filipov, is a frequent guest on Russian TV talk shows — an experience he lovingly calls "a suicide mission."

"When you go on those shows, you're the token Westerner. And everybody who has ever had a gripe about America can sound off on you."

Even if that gripe is completely unrelated to the topic at hand.

Once, Filipov says, he went on a show to discuss politics, and [...]

A key strategy in the fight against climate change is slowing the rapid destruction of the world's forests.

When trees burn or decompose, they release carbon. About 10 percent of the greenhouse gases emitted every year are from this newly freed carbon rising into the atmosphere.

In recent years, developed countries have committed billions of dollars to help developing countries prevent deforestation. Some of the funds have been used to pay landowners not to cut down [...]

The Westridge Marine Terminal overlooks a finger of water that separates Vancouver, BC, from the deep green hills of the nearby provincial parks. It's where oil tankers come to fill up, at the terminus of the TransMountain Pipeline, which winds down through the trees and straight out onto a dock.

The pipeline's been carrying oil here from the tar sands of Alberta for decades, but it's a pretty sleepy operation by industry standards.

“It's the Honda Civic [...]