Crossroads Berlin
R. Levin | 02/08/2022

In 1984, Berlin was a city divided, a city still rebuilding from the war.  The democratic West existed as a landlocked island within communist East Germany. It was in fact...

Back in Bohemia
R. Levin | 01/03/2022

Prague has always been a special place.  At the end of World War II, when the Allies' bombs destroyed Dresden, the west decided to save Prague.  The city thus survived...

Afghan Withdrawal
Elijah Glantz | 08/07/2021

The American War in Afghanistan, American president Joe Biden announced, would conclude on September 11th, 2021 - the twentieth anniversary of the catalyst of the Afghan War, September 11th, 2001.

Beyond 2020 – Intro
Caroline Levin | 01/07/2021

With all this past year has entailed, we want 2020 well behind us, forgotten and abandoned in a bolted meat freezer buried six feet under. But the start of 2021...

Stop The Count
Marley Fortin | 11/09/2020

Stop the count of leaves in snow. Stop the count of sunbeams off the unfrozen river. It is still autumn, you fear what comes next. Stop the count of the dead and...

Fascism U.S.A.
S.R. Landon | 09/25/2020

"Americans approved of fascism... and would do so again." Now, we withstand an onslaught of truly “fake news”. Too bad many 100% legit articles get falsely branded the same way....

Atlantic Alliance
Elijah Glantz | 09/01/2020

As we enter the 2020’s, the animosity filled facade of NATO, in its 70th anniversary, might not tell the full story.  Rather, joint technological projects and military operations have become...

Populism Polarized
Caroline Levin | 04/07/2020

With the recent populist political support in Europe, one readily associates populism as synonymous with the far-right. However, not being an ideology, it can't be linked to one side or...

COVID-19 in Mexico
Maria Lee | 03/25/2020

March 16th, as Mexico faced 82 confirmed and 171 suspected coronavirus cases, the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), walked into his routine morning press conference...

Biden, Sanders
Caroline Levin | 03/02/2020

As 2020 elections draw near, Trump’s Presidency has held symbolic weight in rejecting the values we as a nation seemingly stand by. His administration features rollbacks not policy...