The Cost of Trump’s Aid Cuts: A Global Rollback on Women’s Safety and Empowerment
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to dismantle USAID–the government agency that...
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As US Funding Retreats, China and Russia Fill the Gap: Lessons for Africa
In February 2025, the U.S. administration implemented significant funding cuts affecting several African countries, including funds for South Africa’s HIV/AIDS...
‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Nuclear Deterrence Fails In Netflix Latest Political Thriller
On a seemingly ordinary day, the military base in Fort Greely, Alaska, discovers a ballistic missile heading towards the United...
Tariffs Do Not a Sanction Make: IEEPA, Congress, and the Limits of Executive Power
Few powers are more jealously guarded by the Constitution than the power to tax, and for good reason. The Framers...
The 80th General Assembly will be an Inflection Point for the UN
From Fidel Castro’s four-hour anti-Capitalist tirade in 1960, to Muammar el-Qaddafi’s bizarre 2009 defense of Somali piracy, the United Nations...
What the Backlash Against Mamdani Reveals About Islamophobic Panic
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning upset has sparked an intense wave of political outrage, from politicians predicting another 9/11 to referring to...
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...
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...
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...