An AI Transformation—But for Whom in the Asia-Pacific?
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence has moved from a niche technological frontier to a transformative global force. The number of new AI firms finance...
South Korea’s Diplomacy Has an Institutional Problem
In October 2025, a South Korean man escaped human trafficking captivity in Cambodia. When he rushed to the Korean Embassy in Phnom Penh for help, he was reporte...
A Comparative Analysis of Asylum Interview Delays and Their Impact on the Affirmative Asylum Process
The affirmative asylum system in the United States is designed to function as a linear legal pathway in which applicants file Form I-589, attend biometrics appo...
The Ghost in the Machine
It was almost inevitable that Iran would announce its withdrawal from the new inspection arrangement on Thursday. The decision came just hours after the Interna...
The Polar Express. No, not that one.
For just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and...
Vanished Voices: The Trafficking Crisis Canada Cannot Ignore
In late-May of 2013, Ida Angotigirk, a member of the Salluit community in Northern Quebec, disappeared. After nearly a month of Angotirgirk being missing, it wa...
What Nationalism is Doing to Germany (Again): The Rise of the Far-Right in Germany
Did we learn nothing? Hitler utilized ethnocentric nationalism to unite the “Aryan” Germans against Jews based on their belief in racial superiority. This led t...
Dirty Air: Sportswashing in Formula 1
“It’s lights out and away we go!” With those words, the crowd went wild as the twenty Formula 1 drivers began the first of their 57 laps around the Bahrain Inte...
The Fourth Reich: Why the AfD Should Concern the International Community
Introduction This January, the hyper-conservative Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in Germany released its latest–and most controversial–manifesto:...
Enforcing English: The Politics of Language Education in the Philippines
In 2013, a Philippine high school expelled three students. Their crime? Speaking their native language. Their school’s policy mandated the use of English in all...