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Russia’s Human Assembly Line

Varun Venkatesh December 3, 2025

Russia has never been busier — or more exhausted. After three years of war, the Kremlin boasts record-low unemployment and record-high labor shortages. Factories can’t

Ethiopia’s “Renewal Through Planting” and the Politics of Green Authoritarianism

Tom Boehringer November 26, 2025

The intense Ethiopian sun burns down as thousands of volunteers in green shirts, school children alongside politicians, take up shovels and saplings in a publicly

The Euro Problem: Is Further Integration the Solution?

Dylan Shaoulian November 25, 2025

Twenty-five years after its launch, the eurozone is failing its citizens. In Spain, the unemployment rate sits at 10.29 percent. In Greece, 26.9 percent of

Decolonizing the Climate Crisis

Sofia Kozlova November 24, 2025

In the Atacama Desert of Chile, the promise of clean energy for the world comes at a steep cost. Beneath the salt flats that power

A Faraway Rebel Group Upped Their Game Enough to Hurt the Average American

Atharv Saxena November 19, 2025

Despite the world being more connected than ever, much international conflict feels disconnected from people’s day-to-day lives when it has no day-to-day effect. Beyond the

The Rise of Developing Nations from the Chinese Net Decline

Daniel Wong November 19, 2025

As cranes dotted skylines across Nairobi, Colombo, and Karachi in 2013, China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) had sprung into full velocity. Pouring over

The End of Ideology, the Rise of Identity

Makena Tom November 18, 2025

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama suggested that history had reached its end, not because events would cease, but because humanity had supposedly resolved its deepest political

The Dystopian Spiral of Third-Country Deportations

Kimia Mostowfi November 18, 2025

Shuttled out of countries under mysterious circumstances, dropped off in foreign states, and left with little legal recompense, the story of modern third-country deportees sounds

Remembering the City of Darkness

Ann-Kathrin Hoehler November 18, 2025

Near downtown Hong Kong, about a kilometer away from where Prince Edward Road East crosses the Kai Tak River, lies a historical artifact in the

Netanyahu Faces the World, and the World Walks Out

Adriana Doyle November 8, 2025

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Sep. 26, 2025, symbolism freighted the event. His address

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