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...
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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...
The NYC Russian Neighborhood Where Anora is Set Sees the Movie as an Opportunity
When accepting her Best Actress Oscar, Mikey Madison thanked a neighborhood in New York that rarely appears on travel guides:...
Why is Elon Musk supporting Donald Trump? Mars, Tesla, Wealth, and Ego
Elon Musk's shift from supporting Democrats to endorsing Republicans, along with his backing of Donald Trump after the failed assassination...
“Title 8 Aliens and Nationality” Immigration Law: Chinese Asylum from Chasing after American Dream to Struggling in Structural Violence
From the mass migration of the 1850s Gold Rush to the present-day exodus from an increasingly restrictive China, Chinese migrants...
Uncovering Hegemonic Masculinity’s Hidden Fragility in the 2024 Election
The 2024 U.S. election was, by any standard, a game changer. On the one hand, there was Kamala Harris seeking...