Will Lebanon Truly Overcome its Banking Crisis?
“They want us to fight with the army? We are the army!” Hundreds of Lebanese veterans stormed the parliament, protesting for higher pensions. Lebanese security ...
How Russia Lost Its Grip on Central Asia
Russian President Vladimir Putin demonstrated with the invasion of Ukraine in February of this year that he will go to extreme lengths to preserve, even reinvig...
How the Strength of LGBTQ+ Communities Indicates Differences in Freedom Across Asia
The the LGBTQ+ community has battled for decades to secure their basic human rights. This article analyzes the varying degrees of success of LGBTQ+ moveme...
Covid-19 Policies in China and What it Means for the West
It is October 2022. Two and a half years after the start of the pandemic, China’s mandates in response to Covid-19 remain as extensive as ever. Many count...
The Abraham Accords and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: Unrelated, Unchanging, Uninterested
Please note: the views expressed within are part of an intellectual exercise and do not necessarily reflect the personal views of the author. It is unlikely tha...
From August 15th to the Quad: The Contemporary Strategic Relationship of India and South Korea
August 15th symbolizes a special commonality shared between India and South Korea as they achieved their independence in 1947 and 1945 respectively. However, be...
A Bilingual Bourgeois: The Class Politics behind Morocco’s Language Debate
“Je ne connais pas l’arabe”—I don’t speak Arabic. While the former Moroccan education minister didn’t realize it at the time, these seemingly innocuous words wo...
The Coalition to Protect Against Misinformation: an answer to a wholly global issue
3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 “Peanut butter cups can cause cancer!” proclaimed conspiracy theorist David Wolfe on Facebook in 2017. The claim is ob...
Coming to Consensus: Ensuring Privacy at the Global Level
2nd Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 From 1999 to 2019, the world underwent a 1125% increase in the percent of the global population using the internet[1]....
Ensuring Cooperation for Central Asia’s Water Woes
1st Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 On April 28, 2021, border personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan fired on each other, marking the beginning of a bor...