by Fatima Arkin | Nov 13, 2014 | Monitor
One year after Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc across the Philippines, the country is turning to illegal loggers to help bring one of its most important industries back from the brink.
by Matthew Brunwasser | Nov 12, 2014 | Monitor
Bulgaria commemorates a murdered dissident — and takes a symbolic step toward reckoning with its communist past.
by Larry Jagan | Nov 10, 2014 | Monitor
President Obama is arriving in Burma amid a crisis in the country’s democratic transition.
by Paul Hockenos | Nov 7, 2014 | Monitor
Remembering the "glory days" of nudity, breast milk, and recycling 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
by Susannah George | Nov 6, 2014 | Monitor
Meet Hadi al-Amiri, the unabashedly pro-Iranian leader of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite militia. His bloodthirsty fighters might be Baghdad’s best hope of stopping the Islamic State.