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...
The Snap That Shook Seoul: Tracking the Tremors of the South Korean Election
On June 3, 2025, South Koreans went to the polls in the throes of a political whiplash. Just weeks after...
DeepSeek Claims to Be a Sustainable AI Tool. But Is It Really?
Have you ever considered the sustainability implications of your artificial intelligence use? If you’re one of the 99% of Americans...
Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Jihadist Past Points to a Russian Future for Syria Unless Europe Acts
The former leader of a Salafi-Jihadist group with prior links to Al-Qaeda is Syria’s current interim president. Once a frequent...
27 Years After “The Troubles,” Northern Ireland Remains at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
Although the April 1998 peace deal known as the Good Friday Agreement was supposed to have resolved the conflict in...
Bringing Back the Nineteenth Century Won’t Save Men
Over the past month, the world watched in shock as President Trump introduced a tariff regime that promised to upend...
Turbulence in Seoul: The Aftermath of Political Upheaval
On April 4, 2025, four arduous months following the abrupt declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024, South Korea’s...
The Silence of Others: A Nation’s Pact of Forgetting and the Endurance of Memory
The Silence of Others begins with a quiet act of remembrance: María Martín, an elderly woman, kneels by the side...
Digging Ourselves Deeper: When Climate Action Mimics Extraction
President Trump’s desire to annex Greenland is not wholly a national security strategy. With the autonomous territory’s ice sheet losing...
A Decade Down the Nuclear Silk Road: The Search for Balance
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects, known as the Belt and Road...
Former Philippine President Duterte’s Arrest and the Broader Southeast Asian War on Drugs
From 2016 to 2022, Filipinos endured endless cycles of fear under the Rodrigo Duterte Administration and his “war on drugs”...