International consensus could possibly lay the foundation for Venezuelans to undertake the difficult but desperately needed turn to national reconciliation and reconstruction, write David Smilde and Abraham Lowenthal.

Experts discussed the state of the war in Afghanistan in a recent teleconference.

Monarch Global Strategies released a new report, Pandemics and Beyond: The Potential for U.S.-Mexico Cooperation in Public Health, which reviews past bilateral collaboration on epidemics, identifies a number of specific areas for additional public-private and private-private collaboration, and provides specific recommendations for policy actions to be taken once the crisis abates.

The attempt on Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s life reinforces the need for the United States to support this important nation as it rises out of the ashes of its past, writes Ann Durbin.