The UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation last week released its latest report. The data suggests both good and bad news for children’s survival around the world.

The World Economic Forum last week released a report showing that global progress toward gender parity has largely stalled. The WEF report and other analyses suggest that the pandemic threw obstacles in the path toward gender parity, though the effects vary significantly by country.

Among the issues that will shape the Middle East in 2022 is migration. While the level of violence in several conflicts has diminished, a rising sense of desperation threatens to drive more people to find opportunity outside of their home countries.

The US may have joined the vaccine diplomacy race late, but it is trying to outdo Russia and China, both of which had head starts.

The response among politicians and foreign policy experts in Washington to the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence demonstrates how the debate has shifted in recent years, while reaffirming that US policy continues to privilege Israeli interests.