Evelyn Leopold

Evelyn Leopold is a writing fellow and correspondent for Globetrotter. She is an independent journalist based at the United Nations and the winner of a UN Correspondents Association gold medal for her reporting. She served at Reuters as a manager, editor and correspondent in New York, Washington, London, Berlin and Nairobi. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and head of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists.

September 10, 2026

Editor's Choice/News

Who Will Be Europe’s ‘Last Chance’?

Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I am Europe’s last chance.” As a continent burned and lay devastated by his own actions, he still

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Intelligence Warnings Before Ceuta’s Unprecedented Migration Surge

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an unusually detailed reconstruction of the days before, during and immediately after the mass irregular entry of

September 10, 2026

OpenAI Calls for AI Safety Rules as Its Agents Go Rogue

Business

OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made

China’s AI Chip Ambition Hits a Memory Bottleneck

Business

China’s leading artificial intelligence chipmakers are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation processors as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory squeezes efforts to

Iran Punished For Treatment of Women

December 21, 2022

Diplomacy/Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first UN member ever to be expelled from the prestigious Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), tasked with protecting women’s rights and promoting gender

The UN Proved Its Usefulness in Crafting Ukraine Grain Deal

August 28, 2022

Ukraine

The United Nations has some bragging rights in Ukraine after months of criticism it could not stop the disastrous war, devising a deal with Turkey, Ukraine and Russia that could deliver much-needed