Can War Games Prevent Actual War?

1971 portrait of U Thant, Burmese secretary general of the United Nations (UN). AP/photo hide caption toggle caption AP/photo In the early 1960s, U Thant, a practicing Buddhist from a remote town in Burma, became the first non-Western secretary-general of the United Nations. He immediately faced unfolding crises around the world. We talk with U

Enlarge this image Katherine Du/NPR Katherine Du/NPR Traveling in a wheelchair inevitably has its difficulties — but what happens when you get to your destination and check into your hotel or lodging? At NPR, we've written about problems traveling on planes and trains. Now we want to hear, how do things go when you get

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília on July 17. Mateus Bonomi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mateus Bonomi/AFP via Getty Images RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and 3 months in prison for attempting a coup to stay in power after

Police and army gather to inspect a house destroyed by debris from a shot down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on September 10. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images Russian drones entering Polish airspace was "an intentional act" meant to test the U.S.

A Korean Air charter plane carrying Korean workers detained in immigration raid at Georgia factory leaves Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta bound for South Korea on Thursday. George Walker IV/AP hide caption toggle caption George Walker IV/AP ATLANTA — A plane carrying more than 300 workers from South Korea who were detained during an immigration