On April 21, 2019, a flurry of headlines, including words like “attack,” “American citizens,” and “tourists and Christians,” inundated the news feeds of people...
In a world of growing pessimism and tribalism, where the unknown is feared and the foreign is treated with skepticism, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a laboratory of diversity.
In June 2019, Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum was rattled by a violent government crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Security forces killed and wounded hundreds...
It is not everyday that a student publication gets banned. It is even rarer that a university decides to wholesale ban all student media. But that is exactly what the students of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics have to deal with.
The U.N. mission to help those in need is contradicted by their actions in leaking human waste infected with cholera into an important water source for the people of Haiti. The lack of transparency and utter lack of regard for the rights of Haitian people has proven that the U.N. is not fulfilling its purposes and is only delegitimizing the values it “seeks to promote”.
“Huawei” — The name at the center of the trade war between the United States and China, and the foremost player in the battle over 5G. While much of the discourse around 5G has surrounded the United States and China, Europe is primed to become the central battleground.
The United States has been at war in Afghanistan longer than any other U.S. military conflict and spent more than the Marshall Plan on aid in Afghanistan. Despite three presidencies calling to end the war swiftly, American soldiers are still in Afghanistan with no clear exit strategy.
Even though Hong Kongers, regardless of political affiliation, uniformly believe that the rule of law is being challenged, pro-government and anti-government camps conceive “rule of law” vastly differently, and the schism between conceptions has resulted in disparate stances towards the protests.
The United States’ withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership did not hinder trade in the Asia-Pacific region — instead, the emergence of the TPP’s successor agreement signified a continued commitment by powers in the region to ensure trade liberalization. More importantly, the withdrawal weakened its strategic ties in the region and opened the door for countries like China to further increase their influence there.
Democracy thrives when people show in public how different their beliefs are; disagreement makes our ideological fault lines clearer, giving people more ability to position themselves according to their needs and values.
