The “Lost Decade(s)” that have beleaguered the Japanese economy are rarely lost on anyone. In 1985, the Plaza Accord strengthened the Japanese yen. This, alongside overzealous financial deregulation, fueled an asset bubble that eventually burst i...
Note: This piece was written between October-November 2025. Politics are constantly evolving, and so there may have been multiple developments by the time of publication. Most notably, Andrej Babiš was sworn in as Czechia’s prime minister on Decem...
Albania’s newest cabinet member is pregnant…with 83 babies. But do not worry, she is not human. Meet Diella, Albania’s “AI minister.” Diella was “born” on January 19, 2025, with the job of managing Albania’s ‘e-Albania’ platform, ...
Tsai Ing-wen triumphed over challenger Han Kuo-yu in January and sealed her second term as President of Taiwan. Tsai, of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), opposes Chinese influence on the island while Han of the Kuomintang (KMT) supports friend...
Tsai Ing-wen triumphed over challenger Han Kuo-yu in January and sealed her second term as President of Taiwan. Tsai, of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), opposes Chinese influence on the island while Han of the Kuomintang (KMT) supports friend...
For a century, the United States government refused to recognize the systematic murder and explusion of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide. This was despite the fact that the Armenian diaspora was the most active group of surv...
For a century, the United States government refused to recognize the systematic murder and explusion of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide. This was despite the fact that the Armenian diaspora was the most active group of surv...
Editor’s Note: This article was completed in November of 2019. The delay in publishing was due to factors outside of the writer’s control. On a Sunday night in the midst of midterm season at Brown University, one can expect nearly every s...
Editor’s Note: This article was completed in November of 2019. The delay in publishing was due to factors outside of the writer’s control. On a Sunday night in the midst of midterm season at Brown University, one can expect nearly every s...
Nord Stream 2 may well be the most controversial construction project in the world. The 1,200 kilometer pipeline, extending from Northwestern Russia to Northeastern Germany via the Baltic Sea, has alarmed European and American leaders alike. Critics ...
Nord Stream 2 may well be the most controversial construction project in the world. The 1,200 kilometer pipeline, extending from Northwestern Russia to Northeastern Germany via the Baltic Sea, has alarmed European and American leaders alike. Critics ...
It has taken three years and one pipeline for the Trump administration to respond to Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile Russia. Since ascending to the White House, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his intention to cut the US’s contributio...
It has taken three years and one pipeline for the Trump administration to respond to Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile Russia. Since ascending to the White House, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his intention to cut the US’s contributio...
Along the continental rift between Europe and Asia exists another border: that between three globally recognized countries and their four rebellious, Russian-backed breakaway-states of South Ossetia (Georgia), Abkhazia (Georgia), Transnistria (Moldov...
Along the continental rift between Europe and Asia exists another border: that between three globally recognized countries and their four rebellious, Russian-backed breakaway-states of South Ossetia (Georgia), Abkhazia (Georgia), Transnistria (Moldov...
Chinese technology and telecommunication company Huawei is a rising giant in the global marketplace. However, China is increasingly characterized as a central threat to U.S. interests at home and abroad, and it touts state-backed Huawei as its crown ...
Chinese technology and telecommunication company Huawei is a rising giant in the global marketplace. However, China is increasingly characterized as a central threat to U.S. interests at home and abroad, and it touts state-backed Huawei as its crown ...
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) historical and unprecedented electoral win was met with high hopes of transformative change, but due to fiscal mismanagement, rising levels of violence, and lack of economic growth, the presidential administrati...
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) historical and unprecedented electoral win was met with high hopes of transformative change, but due to fiscal mismanagement, rising levels of violence, and lack of economic growth, the presidential administrati...
“If we were to hold a minute of silence for every estimated death of a migrant worker due to the constructions of the Qatar World Cup,” Hans-Christian Gabelson, the head of Norway’s trade unions, recently said, “the first 44 minutes of the ma...
“If we were to hold a minute of silence for every estimated death of a migrant worker due to the constructions of the Qatar World Cup,” Hans-Christian Gabelson, the head of Norway’s trade unions, recently said, “the first 44 minutes of the ma...
23 September, West Papua, Indonesia: Police shot bullets at protesters, who fired back with arrows. The sky filled with smoke as houses, markets, cars, and government buildings were set on fire. Amnesty International called it “one of the bloodiest...
23 September, West Papua, Indonesia: Police shot bullets at protesters, who fired back with arrows. The sky filled with smoke as houses, markets, cars, and government buildings were set on fire. Amnesty International called it “one of the bloodiest...
A dictator who died serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity in Argentina. The first former head of state to fall subject to the international rights mechanism of universal jurisdiction for a campaign of political terror in Chile. A fugiti...
A dictator who died serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity in Argentina. The first former head of state to fall subject to the international rights mechanism of universal jurisdiction for a campaign of political terror in Chile. A fugiti...
More than 10 billion dollars of aid and hundreds of US military professionals were sent under Plan Colombia to modernize and improve its security forces while comprehensively dealing with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People̵...
More than 10 billion dollars of aid and hundreds of US military professionals were sent under Plan Colombia to modernize and improve its security forces while comprehensively dealing with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People̵...