Archive - Compass

Nepal borders, flags and cables

Jennifer Katzka photography

Dec 12 • Jennifer Katzka

‘Here begins the Great Game’

The scars of Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia

Dec 9 • Matthew Stevenson

ICWA@100: Botswana experience

Casey Kelso on a press officer's guidance in 1992 and what can happen when you don't follow good local advice.

Dec 5 • Casey Kelso

The two kinds of state solution

After the Gaza war ceasefire, might there be a creative way to ensure peace?

Dec 2 • stephen maly

November 2025

Last days of the Soviet Union

Jennifer Katzka photography

Nov 28 • Jennifer Katzka

Opposing might with write

Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings expand the power of theater.

Nov 24 • John Freedman

ICWA@100: The Communists lay siege to Beijing

Doak Barnett reports from inside the city in 1949 on its fall to the People's Liberation Army.

Nov 21 • Compass

Europeans want their leaders to stand up to Trump

But mounting support for the EU presents a dilemma for negotiating with Washington.

Nov 18 • Alison Langley

Jennifer Katzka photography

Nov 14 • Jennifer Katzka

Red states and refugees: An African colony grows in Omaha

Newcomers bring development as well as diversity.

Nov 11 • joel millman

ICWA@100: When democracy doesn’t work

Kim Conroy on a Honduran village's struggles to open its first health clinic in 1983

Nov 7 • Compass

‘No need for a world without us’

Whatever happened to North Korea?

Nov 4 • Dmitry Kharitonov

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