World
Working in the Shadows: Mumbai’s Home-Based Female Artisans
Second-place Submission for the 2026 High School Essay Competition.
Between Two Lists: Who Gets Counted After Disaster?
Winning Submission
of the 2026 High School Essay Competition
Scottish Elections and the Question of Independence
The question of Scottish independence continues to evolve as the U.K. sees new political dynamics, the oil question ferments, and Scottish people reconsider their role within Europe.
La Sangre de Los Ángeles: Testimony of MS-13 and Transnational Gang Violence from El Salvador to Los Angeles
When Orbelina fled El Salvador’s civil war for Los Angeles in 1985, she believed she was escaping violence. Instead, across generations of her family, she witnessed the same patterns of disappearance, gang violence, and impunity reemerge as MS-13 grew from a neighbourhood gang into a transnational symbol of violence and belonging.
She Never Came Home: Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children
Since 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been transferred from occupied territories into Russia that officials describe as humanitarian evacuation but investigators increasingly characterize as abduction and forced assimiliation.
Between Settlement and Emergency: The Post-2022 Ukrainian Diaspora
The interaction of the Ukrainian diaspora, the Church, and the Russian-Ukrainian War.
Undressed by Algorithm: How Grok Exposed the Legal Vacuum Around AI Sexual Abuse
A user types a single word: “Undress.” Within seconds, Grok, the artificial intelligence tool built by Elon Musk’s xAI and hosted on X, generates a sexualized image of a real woman. She consents to nothing. She does not even know it is happening. The image spreads.
Australia’s Digital Detox: The Politics of a Nationwide Social Media Ban
On December 10th, 2025, Australia became the first country to implement a nationwide social media ban. At midnight, the Social Media Minimum Age Act came into effect, deactivating millions of accounts belonging to anyone under the age of 16. Zoe, a teenager from Brisbane, described the chaos that ensued the day the ban was passed: “We’d all heard about it, but nobody thought it was going to happen,” she said. “Everyone was shocked.”