Monday Memo | Healthcare Horrors in the Middle East, GOP Debates Foreign Policy, and NYC’s Migrant Shelter Woes
World In the Line of Fire: Hospitals and Lives at Risk The current casualty count reports 1,405 dead and 5,600...
How is the rise of China reshaping the regional order in South Asia?
South Asia is the geopolitical playground for the competing interests of two major powers, India and China. China’s economic and...
A Climate Perspective: Europe’s De-risking Strategy in Anticipation of a Taiwan Crisis
Geopolitical conflicts, from World War II to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, have always affected energy supplies, natural resource markets, and...
Crisis in Calais: France’s Human Rights Disaster
Tear gas, riot gear, and bulldozers. All three belong nowhere near a migrant camp, yet in April of 2016 French...
Banning Aid, Firing Critics: Netanyahu’s Latest Power Plays Spell Disaster for Palestinians
On November 8, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the next Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, who will take...
The Journey of the Palestinian Corpse: A Mysterious Path and a Stolen Right
On earth, the soil is the body’s inevitable cradle. But, with Palestinian bodies, exceptions may be present. This means a...
Who Do We Remember? A Review of Jenny Murray’s ¡Las Sandinistas! (2018)
Murray, Jenny, dir. ¡Las Sandinistas! 2018: Kino Lorber. ¡Las Sandinistas! (2018), a documentary directed by Jenny Murray, follows women who...
Misogyny and Racism on Full Display in the 2024 Presidential Election
The moment I saw the news that Joe Biden dropped out of the U.S. Presidential race, my heart dropped to...
287(g) and Beyond: How a Second Trump Administration Could Deputize Local Police to Carry out Federal Immigration Goals
During last month’s presidential debate ahead of the upcoming November 2024 U.S. election, ABC News host David Muir prompted former...
Immigration Policy: What Happened to the Kamala Harris We Thought We Knew?
Vice President Kamala Harris's recent pivot on immigration policy has left many supporters bewildered and disheartened. Once a beacon of...
The Brilliance of Netflix’s “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” in the Retelling of the Nazi Occupation in Guernsey
The collective history of World War II is well-documented, with an array of archival literature and videography meticulously depicting the...
Eleanor: The Most Powerful of the Roosevelts
In a political and diplomatic sphere predominated by men, including men of her own family, Eleanor Roosevelt proved to be...
Highlights from Biden’s State of the Union Address
Many Democrats going into the State of the Union (SOTU) address on March 7, 2024 had the overwhelming feeling that...