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Bamako Blockaded: The Battle for Mali’s Future
At 8:30 a.m. one mid-October morning, Oumar Konipo arrived at a gas station in Bamako, Mali. For the 73-year-old retired United States Embassy worker, who has lived in the city since 1968, this was a familiar errand. Konipo waited until 2:30 p.m. to finally fill his tank.
After the Uprising: How Social Media is Reshaping Nepal’s Democracy
n September 2025, instead of taking selfies at a concert or a soccer match, Nepali Instagram was full of teenagers taking photos in front of the burning ruins of their country’s parliament.
On the trail to Everest: A journey of color, prayer, and Himalayan tradition
In the Khumbu Valley, before the altitude hits or the wind slices one’s skin, flashes of blue, white, red, green, and yellow appear everywhere on the trek to Everest Base Camp. Stretching across suspension bridges, wrapping around stupas, tangled in rooftop lines, and draped along exposed ridgelines are prayer flags—one of the most recognizable features of the Himalayan landscape and a signal that this region is as much cultural terrain as physical geography.
When The World Walks Away: Sudan and the Failures of Global Leadership
“I met so many mums who just feel like they are watching their children starve and die. There’s nothing that they can do to help, and they feel forgotten,” said Meghan Greenhalgh, Director of International Programs at the International Medical Corps, who recently visited Sudan to report on the war.
The Strongman and the Cellblock: El Salvador Under Bukele
All credit to Carlos Barrera, photojournalist from El Faro In a small town in central El Salvador, thirty minutes from the capital, a young deportee says he can finally leave his motorcycle outside without fear—something unthinkable just a few years…
New Leaders: Japan’s Dormant Conservatism and the Rise of Sanae Takaichi
On August 15, 2025, hundreds filled the broad walkways of Yasukuni Shrine for the annual commemoration of the official end of World War II. The line moved slowly—but the conversations did not.
Visiting the site for academic research, Ryne Hisada ’27, a Japanese-American student at Yale University, expected a quiet, somber atmosphere in respect for the deceased.
Instead, he found himself surrounded by raised voices. Visitors weren’t whispering about politics, but arguing about it in full volume.
Operations That Start in the Market: Surgical Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
It was 1:15 p.m. when Professor Sisay Ade, identified by a pseudonym, received a call from Mbale Regional Hospital that his sister, Kofi, also a pseudonym, 58, had gone into cardiac arrest. With a history of end-stage renal failure and diabetes, Kofi had checked into the Msaba Wing that morning to undergo routine dialysis treatment. Thirty minutes later, her heart abruptly ceased to function.
The Long Road Out of Stepanakert: The Human Cost Beneath Diplomacy
What should have been a two-hour drive stretched into twenty. Families pressed their heads against their car windows, watching their homeland slip further away as they fled Artsakh for Armenia.