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Black Bodies and the Banality of AI's Brutality
On February 19, 2025, police officers pulled over William McNeil for not wearing a seatbelt and failing to put on headlights in rainy...
Pritish Das
Jul 294 min read


US Follows Fortress Europe In Outsourcing Migration Strategy
Trump’s plans to deport migrants to third countries may yet succeed, as a divided Supreme Court recently ruled that the Trump...
Gemma Gradwell
Jul 273 min read


Transcaucasia At A Crossroads - Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan And America Grapple For Power, Again
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan remain in a process of rapprochement, at the expense of Russia’s traditional dominance in the region. At the...
Patrick René Haasler
Jul 225 min read


The Wrong War: Why An American Golden Dome Won’t Keep Us Safe
In an executive order, President Trump has called for the development of an “Iron Dome for America,” an initiative that has since been...
James Andrew Calderon
Jul 213 min read


The Roar of Pride: Budapest’s Illegal Pride March as a Beacon of Hope
As Pride Month came to a close in the United States this week, many eyes were on Hungary, where more than 200,000 people marched despite...
Zach Rogers
Jul 204 min read


Alligator Alcatraz: Cruelty as Policy in a New American Dystopia
The new American dystopia is a cruel and surreal place in which the lives and dignity of undocumented migrants have been put second by a...
Xavier Fletcher
Jul 194 min read


When Diplomacy Meets Bromance: Trump's New Domestic and Foreign Play
Some things have remained a constant in the second Trump term: his capricious and avaricious personality, which prioritises loyalty,...
Isabel Rodriguez
Jul 184 min read


Europe’s Moment of Truth: A Strategic and Moral Stake in Myanmar
Myanmar’s civil war may seem distant to Europe, but it represents a crucial test of the European Union’s values and interests in the...
Paul Gré-Beauvais (FONDEMOS)
Jul 175 min read


BRICS: The Blueprint For A United Global South?
The 2025 BRICS Summit, convened in Rio de Janeiro, underscored, once again, the growing ambition of the Global South in reshaping...
Ming Wa (Chris) Guan
Jul 164 min read


Beyond Oversight: Palantir and the Making of a Controlled State
Alongside Trump’s continued ICE raids across America, his Administration is attacking immigration from a more insidious angle:...
Isabel Rodriguez
Jul 134 min read


Hidden Sparks: Taiwan's Electoral Recall and Its Potential to Reshape Geopolitics
While the international spotlight remains fixated on the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, a recent political upheaval in...
Ming Wa (Chris) Guan
Jul 84 min read


I’ve Seen This All Before: The Soviet Sphere and Its Similarities to MAGA
It commenced with tanks, waving soldiers, and passionate protests as Trump sat rather glumly, watching his military parade thrown...
Zach Rogers
Jul 44 min read


Mamdani's Materialism or Oblivion: The Democratic Party in the Last Chance Saloon
The buzz surrounding Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in the Democratic primaries for NYC Mayor has been understandably inescapable on...
Andres De Miguel
Jul 28 min read


Zohran Mamdani, the New Left, and a Return to Materialism
In the past few days, many progressive followers of US and world politics have felt an emotion they thought lost long ago, hope. In a...
Andres De Miguel
Jun 295 min read


U.S. Retreat and China’s Reach - Myanmar’s Civil War on the Global Stage
More than four years after Myanmar’s military seized power in a February 2021 coup, the country remains mired in a brutal civil war. On...
Paul Gré-Beauvais (FONDEMOS)
Jun 285 min read


The Metamorphosis of Proxy Conflicts: Iran as Exemplar
Warfare has, over the past few decades, gone through a fundamental transformation. Unlike in the past, when wars were waged chiefly...
Anri Shengelia
Jun 273 min read


MAGA Split Over Iran
As the world held its breath in anticipation for Donald Trump’s decision over whether to join Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear...
Xavier Fletcher
Jun 245 min read


A Review of the United Nations Ocean Conference and the Fight to Protect our Seas
Last Friday, the Third Edition of the United Nations Ocean Conference drew to a close after having run from the 9th-13th June....
Zoe Wreford
Jun 214 min read


Trump's Asylum for White South Africans is a New Low for Racial Capitalism
Last month Donald Trump broke his own immigration policy to grant asylum to 59 white South Africans, allowing them to ‘seek refuge’ in...
Viktor Schlatte
Jun 203 min read


Shame and American National Identity
Though the conceptions of international relations that form the basis of the foreign policies of nearly all states understand governments...
Anoushka Singh
Jun 153 min read
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