World
Round Two—Knocking out COVID-19 in Europe
From younger people’s impropriety to excessive travel to vague guidelines, confounding factors are pushing Europe to the brink of a large second wave.
A Battle for Oil: Turkey vs. the Eastern Mediterranean
Skyscrapers and international corporations are nestled aside Ankara’s grand Kocatepe mosque, with Istanbul and Europe lying to the West and the Middle East and Asia to the right. Despite the Turkish Republic’s unique history of cultural connections, Turkey finds itself more diplomatically isolated today than ever before.
A New Act in the Pacific Theater
China’s growing assertiveness and the United States’ increasing isolationism will likely result in more persecution, oppression, and violence around the world in the coming years.
No “Integrity” Here: Why Caster Semenya Deserves to Run Free
Why do we celebrate male athletes with physical advantages but punish women for being too good?
Donald of Arabia: Is President Trump Fueling a Nuclear Arms Race in the Persian Gulf?
If MBS’s nuclear ambitions come to fruition, he will have played Trump in the most obvious and alarming way.
Doubt in our Democracy: The Peril of the Foreign Collusion Narrative
But the main driver of media polarization was certainly not troll posts from Russia. These are the results of the profit-driven, clickbait based terrain we reside in.
The Fate and Legacy of Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe Velez
These reactions can only be understood in the context of Uribe’s legacy as one of the most transformative and influential Latin American statesmen of the 21st century, a man who has been both the protagonist of Colombia’s recovery from the depths of its late-twentieth-century crisis and the center of its current political polarization.
What COVID-19 Teaches Us About the Future of Environmentalism
By overcoming the adversity brought forth by coronavirus, environmental activism will become stronger. It will not only expand its reach to more platforms, virtual and physical, but also to more people from diverse ages and backgrounds.