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bauhaus
Column/Europe

Green Dreams, Concrete Walls: The New European Bauhaus and the Fight Against Its Foundations

Posted on April 18, 2026 by Mary Fahy

The word “Bauhaus” literally translates from German to “house of building.” Originally, the Bauhaus was a school of design, architecture, and applied arts in Ge...

Flag map of New Caledonia Independence
Column/Asia

New Caledonia: The World’s Next Country?

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Cade Winter

Over 10,200 miles from Paris in the South Pacific Ocean lies the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. The archipelago currently sits at the center of one...

Ibrahim Traore
Column/Africa

Terrorism and Traoré: How Islamist Insurgents and Foreign Intervention Have Aided Ibrahim Traoré’s Authoritarian Takeover of Burkina Faso

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Cade Winter

On May 11, 2025, members of Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Musileen (JNIM) entered the northern town of Djibo in Burkina Faso. Over the next eleven hours, JNIM i...

Processing Unaccompanied Children
Column/Americas

Hidden in Custody: The Exploitation of Unaccompanied Minors

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Chloe Ratner

When Carolina entered the United States, she imagined the opportunities that the United States were to bring. Instead, she found herself stuffing plastic bags, ...

al-Sharaa
Column/Middle East

Striking a Balance: The State and the Minority in Syria

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Kellin Henry

Syria’s Sunni Arab population greeted the collapse of Assad’s regime with elation. However, over a year later, the new government still faces many barriers to r...

World leaders attending the 2025 China Victory Day Parade 2
Column/Asia

Spectacles of Sovereignty

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Olivia Xu

The current global landscape is fragmented and changing. The stability of the perception of the world order remains in question. Since the end of the Cold War, ...

palm oil yris
Column/Asia

The Palm and Ignorance Underneath the Floods

Posted on January 3, 2026 by Palupi Esfandiany Widihartanto

The heavy rains of late November 2025 devastated many countries in South East Asia. Indonesia was hit the hardest, with more than 953 lives lost in Aceh, Sumatr...

period poverty yris
Column/Middle East

Menstrual Hygiene as a Human Right: Period Poverty in Present-Day Palestine

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Grace Braidish

691,300 Palestinian women face a burden gravely ignored by the international community: period poverty. This condition is a symptom of the Israeli-Palestinian c...

milei yris
Column/Americas

Populism Without a Hegemon: Argentina’s Foreign Policy After the End of Global Certainties

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Nahuel Nicolas Herz

For much of the past two decades, Argentina has enjoyed an outsized reputation among progressive audiences abroad. It was one of the first countries in the worl...

nato headquarters yris
Column/Asia/Europe

NATO’s Path Forward in Eurasia’s Silent Wars

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Christian Sproesser

During the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia has quietly threatened many of its neighbors, gauging their ability to withstand future Kremlin aggression. The battle...

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