Monday Memo | US Veto on Ceasefire, Testimonies of College Presidents Criticized, Threats to Right-to-Shelter
World US Vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire On December 8, 2023, the United States vetoed a UN Security...
Middle East
The Silencing of Palestinian Journalists
On Oct. 7, 2023, Israel declared war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and has bombarded Palestinian homes, medical and...
Monday Memo | Israel-Hamas truce, Bilateral talk between the US and China, Budget cuts to the NYC’s budget
World Israel-Hamas truce extends After 48 days of conflict following Hamas' October 7 attack, a four-day truce between Israel and...
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...
Monday Memo | Israel-Gaza Conflict’s Ripple Effects
World Israel-Gaza Crisis On October 7, 2023, a significant escalation unfolded in the Israel-Gaza conflict when Hamas launched a large-scale...
Gulf Peace: China’s Progress and U.S. Standstill
While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was visiting the Middle East, delegations from Iran and Saudi Arabia secretly visited Beijing and...
The Role of Palestinian Force and Israeli Entrenchment
Like a Chinese "finger trap" (zhōngguó shǒuzhǐ xiànjǐng), Israel’s security and civilian presence in the West Bank has only tightened...
Egypt Just Hosted the World’s Largest Climate Talks – COP28 Must Build on That Progress
Last November, world leaders, climate activists, investors, and diplomats swarmed the resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for the...
‘Loss and Damage’ Was the Focus of COP27. Don’t Expect Climate Finance To Change Anytime Soon!
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, colloquially known as COP27, took place between November 6 and November 18, 2022....
Perspective | Being Ethnically Ambiguous in a Race-Fueled America
No one I’ve met has ever been able to guess my race correctly. Not that it’s a competition, or that...
