When I was two, my dad took me to an Iraq war protest in Dallas. Proudly dressed in a white kufi with his long beard, a “war kills children” sign hanging from his neck and me sitting on his shoulders, ...
As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) becomes more economically prosperous and prominent on the world stage, questions surrounding its superpower alignment have started to surface more frequently in an increasingly tense and bipolar international order. However, neutrality and ...
April 24, 2023, marks the 108th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. To this day, the Armenian Genocide remains unrecognized by Turkey, the successor state to ...
From Somalia to Sudan, the United States’ approach to African foreign policy has been largely unsuccessful, often further destabilizing the region. This is particularly true in West Africa, where states such as Guinea-Bissau have fallen victim to U.S. diplomacy. Nestled ...
Representation is supposed to be a good thing, right? So why does it so often feel like minority politicians are doing more harm than good? Indians in the United States and the United Kingdom comprise around 20% of all Indian ...
Dites non à la retraite à 64 ans. “Say no to retirement at 64.” This is the message that millions of people have been telling the French government over the past three months. It all began after Parliament announced a ...
Soft, fluffy, cuddly, cute, rare and bear-like. When people think of giant pandas from China, these are often the adjectives that come to mind. As symbols of friendship and peace, the lovable pandas are ambassadors that connect China with people ...
For a long time now, the United States has sought to champion human rights and promote democracy abroad. However, this article will analyze how many of these humanitarian responses arguably have resulted in some of the worst human rights abuses. ...
On Mar. 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin accusing him of war crimes involving the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. For months, thousands of Ukrainian children have been ...
Hensachi (Japanese: 偏差値) is a measurement that reveals the strict social standards within Japan’s education system. Hensachi, or in other words, deviation value, is a value that does not just represent one’s score but an approximate position in the entire ...