A history of refugees in Illinois, by the numbers

Jan. 23, 2013
Data on the state’s international refugee resettlement offer a primer on the sweep of recent world history and a window into U.S. foreign policy.

Worldview 12.16.11

Dec. 16, 2011
It was a monumental year in news what with the Arab spring, death of Osama bin Laden, Wikileaks cables and withdrawal from Iraq. But according to Joshua Keating, the associate editor of Foreign Policy, a lot of big stories fell through the cracks.

In a year of world-changing news, the stories that slipped through the cracks

Dec. 16, 2011
By all measures, 2011 was a big year for international news. It may go down in the history books for being as transformative as 1989, when the Soviet Empire fell.Mass protests transformed the Middle East. The sovereign debt crisis is torching the Eurozone. Let’s not forget Fukishima. Occupy. Osama.