We are living in an unprecedented time that will undoubtedly leave a mark on history — already our generation has already been christened as “Generation Corona.” What will this future world look like? Society as we know it around the world will forever be changed in the wake of this global pandemic which has left nobody unaffected.
Former Australian Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull broke confidence earlier this week, spilling on his previously private engagements with both Presidents Obama and Trump.
This past summer, Australia experienced one of the most devastating fire seasons on record. But the fires have done little to ignite climate action on the national political stage. Instead, the country is actually increasing the rate of fossil fuel extraction and combustion — the very things which exacerbated these extreme weather events in the first place.
Strained US-NATO relations and fears of further Russian expansion have motivated the European Union to aggressively increase defense and security cooperation in the last five years. However, there is little indication that French President Macron’s call for a “true European army” will be realized in the foreseeable future.
This past summer, Australia experienced one of the most devastating fire seasons on record. But the fires have done little to ignite climate action on the national political stage. Instead, the country is actually increasing the rate of fossil fuel extraction and combustion — the very things which exacerbated these extreme weather events in the first place. So why is the Liberal Coalition continuing down this path? And does its ‘highly mitigated’ approach to climate change provide the answer for countries hoping to maintain strong economic growth while transitioning to renewables?
On April 21, 2019, a flurry of headlines, including words like “attack,” “American citizens,” and “tourists and Christians,” inundated the news feeds of people...
In a world of growing pessimism and tribalism, where the unknown is feared and the foreign is treated with skepticism, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a laboratory of diversity.
In June 2019, Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum was rattled by a violent government crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Security forces killed and wounded hundreds...
It is not everyday that a student publication gets banned. It is even rarer that a university decides to wholesale ban all student media. But that is exactly what the students of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics have to deal with.
The U.N. mission to help those in need is contradicted by their actions in leaking human waste infected with cholera into an important water source for the people of Haiti. The lack of transparency and utter lack of regard for the rights of Haitian people has proven that the U.N. is not fulfilling its purposes and is only delegitimizing the values it “seeks to promote”.
