The addition of potatoes to the European diet conferred a degree of food security which enabled Europeans to spend more time exploring the rest of the world and in foreign adventures, writes Seth Freeman.

Upstream from Iran, Afghanistan’s Kamal Khan Dam tests hydro-diplomacy’s effectiveness at quelling fears of water scarcity, write Branka Andjelkovic and Humayoon Babur.

Pacific Council member Jongsoo Lee interviews Geoffrey See, founder of Choson Exchange.

As the Biden administration addresses the threat from the hostile landscape inhabited by jihadis who continue to plot attacks on the United States, it must decide whether to continue or affirm the Trump administration’s retreat from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia, writes Bennett Ramberg.

Ten years after the Arab Spring uprisings, a look at the impact on women’s rights in the Maghreb, write Maro Youssef, Meriem Aissa, and Suzie Abdou.

More than 25 years after NAFTA was enacted, Mexico has improved in innumerable aspects, but its essential challenges—poverty, regional inequality, a bad justice system, wholesale violence and criminality, and an incompetent government—remain there as always, writes Luis Rubio.

The approval of a new national security law in Mexico promises to disrupt security cooperation between Mexico and the United States, writes the Monarch Global Strategies team.

Pacific Council member Cassie Hermiston-Boyd interviews Mexican Consul General in LA Marcela Celorio about the future of the U.S.-Mexico trade relationship.

The United States should establish a climate innovation-focused investment fund to accelerate the development of potential solutions to our mushrooming climate catastrophe, while also creating jobs and leverage for incremental private investment, writes Brewer Stone.

The contemporary superheroine has a backstory inspired by Greek mythology, which in turn was inspired by real-life ancient warrior women, writes Kimiya Shokoohi.