Mar 14 Asia's Mojo Keeps on Working Shoppers in the Paragon mall in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. No matter how many Washington think tank conferences one covers, all their accumulated wisdom is no substitute for going to the countries they are talking about. Continue reading
Mar 13 Viva Pope Francis: The First South American Pope By Larisa Epatko It took cardinals only two days to elect the new leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics on Wednesday afternoon: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope from South America. He took the name Pope Francis. Continue reading
Mar 13 China Uses Copycat Architecture to Modernize, Define and Celebrate Itself By Molly Finnegan While copying architectural styles is as old as architecture itself, China has done it on an unprecedented scale and speed. Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch Copycat Architecture Rises in China's Building Boom Copycat Architecture Rises in China's Building Boom… Continue watching
Mar 13 Seven Cardinal Contenders for Pope By Larisa Epatko As the first three rounds of voting Tuesday and Wednesday failed to produce a pope, the 115-member conclave will keep trying Wednesday afternoon with renewed hopes of reaching consensus. There's no clear frontrunner, but out of the cardinals who are… Continue reading
Mar 12 Papal Succession in the Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI at his last meeting with cardinals at the Vatican on Feb. 28. Photo via Osservatore Romano/Reuters. By Robert McMahon, editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The February 2013 resignation of Pope Benedict XVI… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch Japanese Town Hit Hard by Natural and Nuclear Disaster Imagines Renewable Future Renewable Energy Could be the Answer for Hard-Hit Japanese Town… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch New Tensions Crop Up Between U.S. and Afghanistan as Major Transitions Loom New Tensions Crop Up Between U.S. and Afghanistan as Major Transitions Loom… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch American Soldiers Gunned Down in Afghanistan in Insider Attack Two American soldiers were killed in an insider attack in Afghanistan following accusations by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that U.S. forces are working with the Taliban to stage suicide bombings. Judy Woodruff reports on the latest violence and Defense Secretary… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch Western Allies Have 'Muted' Response to Kenya's Presidential Election For more on the local and global fallout from the latest presidential election in Kenya -- a key ally of the United States -- Gwen Ifill talks with Jendayi Frazer, former U.S. assistant secretary of State for African Affairs. Continue watching