Leigh Hartman
Chinese media: Press or propagandists?
The State Department recently designated five Chinese state-run media organizations as foreign missions, recognizing that they are controlled by the CCP.
Taking on a billion locusts in the Greater Horn of Africa
Learn how the United States is helping several African countries control billions of locusts that are threatening crops and communities.
Protecting the U.S. from risky foreign investment
The U.S. welcomes foreign investment in U.S. companies, but also has safeguards to protect national security. Learn more about those protections.
U.S. supercomputers take aim at coronavirus
Able to perform trillions of calculations per second, the most powerful supercomputers in the world are joining the fight against the new coronavirus.
Americans adapt to social distancing to fight coronavirus
As Americans keep their distance from one another to slow the spread of the 2019 coronavirus, they also reimagine and reinvent daily routines.
New reports find widespread forced labor in China
Two new reports show how the Chinese Communist Party is forcing Uighurs and other ethnic Muslims to work in factories across China.
Singaporean to lead U.N. intellectual property agency
Daren Tang, from Singapore, was elected to become the new director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
How universities protect sensitive research [infographic]
Universities around the world are taking steps to protect their sensitive research from attempts by the Chinese Communist Party or others to steal it.
Fighting for justice in authoritarian regimes
As the world marks Social Justice Day on February 20, here's a look at injustices that regimes in China, Iran and Venezuela inflict on their own people.