
The 2024 U.S. presidential election was one of the most disheartening nights of the last year. It was also the first time I heard about Polymarket. This was not a coincidence, of course. As a group of friends and I were crammed in a claustrophobic dorm room watching a map of states flipping
In 2017, a mysterious company began buying large plots of land in Solano County, California. The company has since spent
At a startup fair in Shenzhen, often called China’s Silicon Valley, a robotic arm salutes the Chinese flag while a
President Donald Trump was sworn into office this January as part of a promise to make the United States “woke
On 25 September, at dusk, Antananarivo went dark. Mothers lit candles to cook dinner; children did their homework by phone
On September 21, a coordinated effort by the Western nations of Britain, Australia, Canada, and Portugal aimed to promote a
“California stands for a woman's right to choose,” affirmed Gov. Newsom as he signed Assembly Bill 260, a sweeping California
In December 1959, New Yorkers were met with the curious scene of Soviet soldiers on 47th Street and a new
Liberalism is the tie that binds the nation. It is imperfect – it has frayed and nearly come undone numerous
The Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA), or Metrolink, has been serving Los Angeles and its surrounding counties for decades,
Framed in black and written in white, Students for Life America’s posters shone through the crowds outside the Supreme Court
Uprooted from Korea, raised in Cupertino, sent back across the Pacific only to return a decade later — all of
A few supporters have gathered in front of the podium in the small eastern German town of Gera, as Björn
In Beijing’s 2025 military parade, symbolism mattered as much as firepower. Alongside next-generation drones and hypersonic missiles, President Xi Jinping
A deeply divided population. An explosion, a mass government resignation. A militia stronger than the military, an invasion from the
In the months after the United States-backed government of Afghanistan first fell to the Taliban, international condemnation of the regime
Searching Indonesia on TikTok once yielded viral videos of an 11-year-old kid racing boats and “aura-farming”. Now, the same search
Digital control is the bloodstream of modern authoritarianism. From the streets of Hong Kong to the border of Israel, technology
One would assume that Austrian-Jewish philosopher Karl Popper’s 1945 book, “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” would be teeming with
On August 14th, UC Berkeley students received an email from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost that
MacArthur Park is a civic treasure of Los Angeles. It stands as a testament to the diversity and resilience of
Gov. Gavin Newsom has been making headlines recently as he is seemingly in the early stages of a 2028 bid