In seconds, everything changed. A city buzzing with mundane early-evening traffic came to a standstill as 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded into a rust-colored plume over Beirut on August 4, 2020. One of the largest non-nuclear explosions in ...
For the first time in Chilean history, an Indigenous Mapuche woman, Elisa Loncon, is leading the country’s constitutional transformation after massive anti-government protests in 2019—incited by long-standing inequality and rising costs of living...
Every year since 1976, ten of Southeast Asia’s top leaders have come together at the main summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), hoping to address the region’s most pressing policy issues. But, before this year’s gatherin...
If the first thing you see when you picture Canada is a lush, progressive, free healthcare utopia, you would not be alone. The country’s international reputation generally ranges from benign acknowledgement to outright veneration. What’s more, Ca...
If the first thing you see when you picture Canada is a lush, progressive, free healthcare utopia, you would not be alone. The country’s international reputation generally ranges from benign acknowledgement to outright veneration. What’s more, Ca...
In recent years, kimchi—a spicy, fermented cabbage dish ubiquitous in Korea—has found its way into home kitchens and chain restaurants around the world. Yet, even as South Korean kimchi exports reach an all-time high, the dish marks a low point i...
In recent years, kimchi—a spicy, fermented cabbage dish ubiquitous in Korea—has found its way into home kitchens and chain restaurants around the world. Yet, even as South Korean kimchi exports reach an all-time high, the dish marks a low point i...
The roofs over several docks at Port Fourchon were stripped away by early afternoon. Hurricane Ida had produced a 12-foot storm surge and sustained 150 mile-per-hour winds that battered buildings, scattered equipment, and submerged large swaths of la...
The roofs over several docks at Port Fourchon were stripped away by early afternoon. Hurricane Ida had produced a 12-foot storm surge and sustained 150 mile-per-hour winds that battered buildings, scattered equipment, and submerged large swaths of la...
Throughout the past decade, China’s public stance toward the climate crisis has shifted significantly as the consequences of climate change and benefits of decarbonization have become more clear. Before the 26th session of the Conference of Parties...
Throughout the past decade, China’s public stance toward the climate crisis has shifted significantly as the consequences of climate change and benefits of decarbonization have become more clear. Before the 26th session of the Conference of Parties...
On September 25, after 3 years of detention in Canada, Huawei’s chief financial officer and CEO’s daughter, Meng Wanzhou stepped off of her plane arriving at Shenzhen International airport, waving to an exhilarated crowd who waved back with dozen...
On September 25, after 3 years of detention in Canada, Huawei’s chief financial officer and CEO’s daughter, Meng Wanzhou stepped off of her plane arriving at Shenzhen International airport, waving to an exhilarated crowd who waved back with dozen...
On a trip to Guatemala last June, US Vice President Kamala Harris initiated a rhetorical and strategic shift in her administration’s approach to immigration from Central America with three simple words: Do not come. Directed towards would-be migran...
On a trip to Guatemala last June, US Vice President Kamala Harris initiated a rhetorical and strategic shift in her administration’s approach to immigration from Central America with three simple words: Do not come. Directed towards would-be migran...
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system distorts the will of voters. By the end of election night on September 20, 2021, the Canadian House of Common...
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system distorts the will of voters. By the end of election night on September 20, 2021, the Canadian House of Common...
For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as chancellor, the leading German philosophy on financial and budgetary matters was simple. So simple, in fact, that Merkel often invoked the example of a homely Swabian housewife (schwäbische Hausfrau) to clar...
For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as chancellor, the leading German philosophy on financial and budgetary matters was simple. So simple, in fact, that Merkel often invoked the example of a homely Swabian housewife (schwäbische Hausfrau) to clar...
The king must go. This is the sentiment sprayed onto shop walls, shared on WhatsApp statuses, and chanted across the Kingdom of Eswatini. Eswatini was known internationally as Swaziland until 2018, when King Mswati III changed its name. He is Africa...
The king must go. This is the sentiment sprayed onto shop walls, shared on WhatsApp statuses, and chanted across the Kingdom of Eswatini. Eswatini was known internationally as Swaziland until 2018, when King Mswati III changed its name. He is Africa...
Sarita Skagnes was born in a small village in Northern India as the third daughter in her family. Based on the perceived lack of honor and value that she brought to her family due to her gender, Skagnes’s parents exchanged her for a male cousin and...
Sarita Skagnes was born in a small village in Northern India as the third daughter in her family. Based on the perceived lack of honor and value that she brought to her family due to her gender, Skagnes’s parents exchanged her for a male cousin and...
As Britain’s Labour Party attempts to reassemble an electoral coalition following its devastating 2019 defeat to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, internal debate has arisen over new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s use of the British flag. With L...
As Britain’s Labour Party attempts to reassemble an electoral coalition following its devastating 2019 defeat to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, internal debate has arisen over new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s use of the British flag. With L...
With 211 days of full school closure between March 2020 and February 2021, Panamanian schools have had a longer break from classroom learning in the Covid-19 pandemic than any other nation in the world. Even worse, a UNICEF survey conducted in Novemb...
With 211 days of full school closure between March 2020 and February 2021, Panamanian schools have had a longer break from classroom learning in the Covid-19 pandemic than any other nation in the world. Even worse, a UNICEF survey conducted in Novemb...