I woke up Saturday morning to the shocking news that US President Donald Trump had ordered the US invasion of Venezuela and the removal of its unanimously declared illegitimate president, Nicolás ...
Abeyagoonasekera begins by outlining the reality on the ground since the February 2021 coup d’état. More than 6,000 people have been killed, over 3.5 million displaced and roughly half the population ...
Across social media and the wellness economy, “Monk Mode” mutates a metaphor into a product line. Monk Mode hashtags command over 76 million views on TikTok, fueled by productivity influencers like ...
In Madagascar, a youth-led revolt has toppled a president and ushered in a military-led transition. Sparked by protests over collapsing public services and shrinking freedoms, the uprising drew in the ...
The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...
AI is transforming maternal healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa, using tools like SMS alerts to connect pregnant women with care. The technology has brought a reduction in maternal, neonatal and ...
The international community may be standing on the edge of a grave political miscalculation. After years of dismal and frustrating diplomatic efforts, global and regional actors continue to pursue a ...
As Washington looks away from Kabul, Moscow and Beijing are leaning in. Beijing has maintained dialogue — without formal recognition — with the new Afghan government to sustain its investments and ...
Jenkins grew up in a cotton mill town in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, in a family where mill work begins young and college is more aspiration than inheritance. His parents insisted he ...
Broadly, risk can be defined as a function of the potential impact of an event and the likelihood of its occurrence. In defining what should be classified as a risk, it is increasingly evident that ...
When governments start telling children they cannot have an Instagram account, we are watching more than a domestic policy experiment — we are witnessing the geopolitics of childhood. Indonesia — a ...
On December 12, some 300 workers at PT. CTLI (Shengtuo Company), a Chinese-owned company operating inside Indonesia’s Morowali Industrial Park, walked off the job. Their demands were neither radical ...