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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, joined the Yale Institute for Global Health to discuss the status of COVID-19 and its variants around the world and...
CDU chair Armin Laschet congratulating Saxony-Anhalt CDU leader Reiner Haseloff at today’s meeting of the CDU Executive Committee in Berlin.
On Sunday, voters in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new Landtag, the state’s legislative assembly. The last of several state elections this year prior to the September...
In 2016, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center launched a three-year international teachers’ workshop series, in which teachers from...
Dr. Minh Dang
On May 6, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale hosted a panel discussion titled “Learning from Lived Experience: Survivor...
Portuguese Prime Minister and Council President António Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Parliament President David Sassoli after signing documents creating the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Last July, the heads of state or government of the 27 member states of the EU, meeting as the European Council, agreed on a recovery plan to assist the states in recovering from the economic effects...
Erik Harms
Erik Harms, Council on South East Asia Studies Chair, has been awarded the 2021 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences.  The citation for Professor Harms states: “Erik...
Ryanair flight from Athens arriving in Vilnius, Lithuania after forced landing in Minsk, Belarus.
The European Union is not noted for acting promptly and decisively when confronted with a serious geopolitical challenge. But on Monday, only a day after Belarus, claiming to have received...
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization
On May 11, the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) welcomed Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to discuss the importance of ensuring equity in...
Monteiro (left) with Alexandre Debs. (Courtesy of Alexandre Debs)
Nuno Monteiro, who passed away this month, influenced debates about U.S. dominance in the world. He was an associate professor of political science at Yale University. The following article written...
Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and author of “On Tyranny,” talks with Rachel Maddow about the importance of a free press to the preservation of democracy against controlling...
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaking to the parliament Tuesday after it approved the financing arrangement for the EU’s recovery plan.
On Tuesday, a large collective sigh of relief could be heard across Europe; Finland’s parliament had approved, by the narrowest of margins, the EU’s proposed financing of its €750 billion recovery...
Amanda Gorman  (Image courtesy of NPR)
During the Inauguration of Joseph Biden on January 20, 2021, poet Amanda Gorman recited her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” which captivated a worldwide audience. In response to an announcement of the...