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Oligarchy

Summer in the Global Village: Trevor Noah, South Africa’s Comic Phenomenon

Much of comedian Trevor Noah’s work references his mixed-race heritage: He was born during the apartheid era to a black South African mother and a white Swiss father […]

China Past Due: Hukou ‘Economic Apartheid’

Cuba Activates Undersea Internet Cable Line

Development & Education
The World

Cuba’s British West Indian Enclave

Global Politics

South Africa Shocked at Lonmin Mine Killings

Conflict & Justice

The Racial Divide in South African Politics

Global Politics

In post-apartheid South Africa, political party affiliation still mostly falls along racial lines. The Democratic Alliance, one of the country’s two dominant parties, seen as a party of white and mixed-race voters, is trying to attract black voters.

Top of the Hour: Syria Accepts UN Plan to End Bloodshed, Morning Headlines

Syria has accepted a United Nations plan to end violence, including a two-hour ceasefire to provide humanitarian aid. In other headlines, the Supreme Court  hears another round of arguments today on President Obama’s health care reform law; Obama meeting Pakistan’s prime minister in Seoul, South Korea; Cuba welcomes Pope Benedict the 16th; and a wildfire in […]

The World

The Oligarchs of Greece

Global Politics

Greece’s powerful oligarchs exert influence over business, finance and media. And the government sees the oligarchs as some of the biggest tax evaders in Greece.

A Changing South Africa  ? Part One

The Wild Coast of South Africa boasts beautiful beaches, sandstone gorges, and a diversity of plants, some found nowhere else in the world. During apartheid, the black homeland of the Transkei in the Wild Coast was passed over by developers and the region stayed relatively isolated. The region stayed pristine but the people living there […]

The World

Categorizing Chinese South Africans as black

Conflict & Justice

A high court in South Africa ruled today that South Africans of Chinese descent should be included in the country’s legal definition of “black people”