Former French President on Trial: Corruption and Alleged Ties to Gaddafi
Jerome Lavrilleux, center, a former cabinet director for the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrives at the courtroom Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Paris. Former ...
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White-Nationalism as a Culture in the U.S. and its Impact on Immigration Policies
2nd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 On 19 March, 2021, The New York Times told a heartbreaking story of striving, failure, and despair1. Having paid...
Once Again with the Church and the State: Russian Orthodox Faith in Characterizing Contemporary National Politics
Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 “The conversion of Prince Vladimir and the whole of Rus to Orthodoxy were of truly historic significance and played a f...
Upholding French Secularism at the expense of the French Muslim Identity
Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 On March 30th, 2021, The French Senate voted in favor of adding an amendment to the “Separatism Bill” that seeks to ban...
Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception
“Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was meant to put a name to what felt like a new and alarming trend in political di...
Positioning Photography in China: Liang See Tay and Elite Subjects
Background When examining the arrival of western photographers to China in the 19th century, men wielding cameras, armed with a revolutionary means of image-rep...
A Region Most Neglected: The Multi-Dimensional Crisis of the Sahel
People gather at the site of a suicide attack at a Market in Konduga outside Maiduguri, Nigeria Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Suicide bombers attacked a camp for in...
New York Times Journalist Dionne Searcey Discusses Gender, Change, and Trauma in West Africa
Women sit in the shade of a fishing boat as they prepare fish for sale at Takwabay beach in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photos/Sunday Alamba) Dionne Searcey is a Pulitz...
Ironies in Economic Growth: Sub-Saharan African Economies Rebound After COVID-19 Hit
Signage hangs at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. In its first World Economic Outlook r...
“Our Art is Global”: Sultan Al-Qassemi on Art and Protest in the Middle East
On February 15th, the Yale Arab Students Association hosted Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Emirati columnist, researcher and the Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, to...