Explore the World Policy Archives:
For over 10 years, the World Policy institute published daily blog posts from journalists, scholars, and practitioners around the world.
The blog featured contributions from WPIs programs – including the Arctic in Context and the African Angle – each of which highlighted local voices from their respective regions. Issues such as climate change, corruption, and culture were covered often from a local perspective.
While we are building out our new programs, we would like to invite you to take a look back through the archives at some of the wonderful journalism, analysis, and commentary that you might have missed.
South Korea’s New Media
Online outlets are following the stories missing from traditional media coverage of the Korean peninsula
History on the Menu
As New York’s Lower East Side changes, neighborhood eateries keep Jewish traditions alive
Talking Policy: Jean-Marc Liling on Asylum-Seekers in Israel
Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers remain in a state of limbo as they await the Netanyahu administration’s next move
Fire and Fury in Iran and North Korea
As Trump turns up the heat in his statements about Iran, what are the prospects for nuclear negotiations?
Talking Policy: Ahmad Amara on the Bedouin in Israel
How property and land-rights laws are used to disenfranchise the Bedouin
Snapshots of the 1960s
Shravan Vidyarthi revisits the work of photojournalist Priya Ramrakha in the U.S. and across Africa
Talking Policy: Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck on Moderating Social Media
How transparent are the tech giants of Silicon Valley?
Thinking About Food
An award-winning cookbook delves into reindeer-herding culture in indigenous communities across the Arctic
Talking Policy: Margarita Cadenas on Women in Venezuela
Cadenas’ film tracks the lives of five Venezuelan women as they navigate political and economic crisis
Talking Policy: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar on Human Rights in Post-Franco Spain
The documentary “The Silence of Others” examines the scars left behind by the Franco regime
In Print: “Femme Fascista”
How Giorgia Meloni became the star of Italy’s far right
In Print: “War of Words”
Rodrigo Duterte’s violent relationship with language
Talking Policy: Bina D’Costa on Conflict in Sri Lanka
How cycles of crime and violence led to civil war
In Print: “Reading Between the Lines”
The slow reveal of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grandiose vision
Hierarchy and Development in the Russian Arctic
How a community’s position in Russia’s federal system determines its economic future
More Than Meets the Eye at the Singapore Summit
With the U.S. midterm elections fast approaching, a comprehensive deal with North Korea may be Trump’s best gamble
Real Estate Shopping in the West Bank
Israeli banks are funding the expansion of settlements that cut off Palestinians’ access to their property
On the Front Pages
LGBT rights remain contentious in Uganda, the fight fueled by public “outings” in sensationalist media
Meet the Kremlin’s Keyboard Warrior in Crimea
An ambitious young editor has joined Russia’s information war with the West
Anatoly Sleptsov on Lawmaking in the Russian Arctic
How traditional and scientific knowledge can be used to promote the interests of Arctic communities
In Print: “Silencing the Echoes of Tiananmen”
How the Chinese Communist Party has compelled China to forget the bloody crackdown around Tiananmen Square in 1989