Decades after Apartheid, violence remains an unresolved obstacle to the country’s success.
Europe Knows Where It Doesn’t Want to Go
As Germany and Italy decide the shape of their future governments, the EU is making slow progress. It is abandoning lofty schemes and determined to focus on people’s real problems.
Italy’s Elections: How Germany Is Italianizing Itself
Italian politicians warning against “Germany-type problems” in forming a government after the next election are a truly striking moment of European integration – although not a particularly welcome one.
Nordstream 2: How Germany Lets Down Europe
For all the emphasis on pursuing Germany’s “national interest,” the planned new pipeline undermines the EU, Germany itself and German influence in Europe.
UK: Corbyn’s Important U-Turn on Brexit
Why is the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn now in favor of a Customs Union with the EU?
A Growing Water Crisis in South Africa
A rapidly approaching emergency in Cape Town threatens to spill over.
My Great-Grandfather. War Hero?
Scott Tong travels to China to discover how his great-grandfather saved the Tong family village during World War Two.
Family Genealogies
Scott Tong travels to China with his mother to track down their family history.
Discovering My Grandmother’s School
Scott Tong returns to China to find his grandmother’s old school in Nanchang.























