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...
Year: 2025
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”...
What Happened to Making America Affordable Again?
“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail....
Lack of the United States’s Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
During a thunderstorm in Manhattan on the morning of the twentieth of November 1989, members of the United Nations General...