Don’t Speak Now, Hold Your Peace: The Quiet Power of Retribution
“I don’t think there’s been a time in my life where people were more openly afraid to express themselves.” Jimmy Hatch, a former Navy SEAL, reflects. “It breaks my heart.”
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Learning to Fly in Temascaltepec: How Free Flight Transformed a Community
When I set out to create this piece, I thought I would be writing about the development of extreme air sports in a small region in the southern State of Mexico. Only after I started conversing with the pilots and locals did I realize I was actually writing a love story.
Politic Podcast Episode 10 – Capturing the Cost of Conflict: Javier Manzano on the Power of Photojournalism
We have this arrogance that only Western journalists have the monopoly of truth, and they are the only ones who can look at a situation objectively. That’s really arrogant on our part, and we’ve been doing that for decades, descending on countries that don’t speak our language and believing that we’re better than local journalists. We’re obviously not.
Designing Reality: an Interview with Yale Architecture Professor Mark Foster Gage
It feels good to pretend to solve them with architecture, but it’s probably not the right tool. I think we’re not teaching the cultural aspect of architecture enough, how it produces community and identity—even beauty—through a more aesthetically driven agenda.
Georgia’s Last Stand: Poets, Protesters, and the Fight Against Russian Rule
On July 22, 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge, the poet Paolo Iashvili walked into the Writer’s House in Tbilisi, now a sanctuary for Georgia’s literary elite, then a courtroom of fear. The authorities had declared writers must…
A Six-Hour Coup: How Polarization Plunged South Korea into Martial Law
Kyeonghee Eo, an assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, checked X on the morning of December 3rd, 2024. It was a week before her long-awaited trip to visit family in South Korea. What she saw…
A Woman’s Place: The Race for Mexico’s First Female President
Classrooms are now tense encampments for student protestors at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico. Marisa Belausteguigoitia, a full-time lecturer at UNAM whose research focuses on collective young feminist protestors, shared that…
Cutting Ties: The Unraveling of Partnerships between American and Chinese Universities
In January 2024, Florida International University (FIU) arrived at the final step of a long partnership. The school terminated several of its successful partnerships with Chinese universities, including a Spanish language program, engineering programs, and a dual-degree hospitality program. FIU’s…