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Growing up with the monsoons: Human immobility in flood-prone Kerala

Shanda MoorghenMay 4, 2020

The esoteric nature of the monsoon season in India has often caused devastation in a country plagued by its fair share of environmental issues. The 2018 flood ... Read More

OPINION | Time for the US to Make a Real Commitment

SubmissionMay 3, 2020

by Samuel Boehms The Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be a global crisis the likes of which the world has not seen for almost a century. Not since the Sec... Read More

REVIEW | “The Wandering Earth”: Sampling Chinese Foreign Policy from Contemporary Pop Culture

SubmissionMay 2, 2020

by Vivienne Zhang As the rest of the world adjusts to the new normal of life in the time of COVID-19, this real-time global emergency reveals stark cultural, systematic, and stylistic differences between China’s crisis leadership and that of othe... Read More

Will Bougainville Soon Become the World’s Newest Sovereign Nation?

Darcy FrenchApril 23, 2020

When on January 23, a 40-day petition period elapsed with no complaints submitted, a sigh of relief could be felt across the Melanesian region of Bougainville.... Read More

A new report denounces the environmental impact of investment lawsuits under the ECT

SubmissionApril 18, 2020

Submitted by Lucia Posteraro A new report by the independent think tank OpenEXP, supported by the European Climate Foundation, claims that the Energy Chart... Read More

Preventing Pandemics: A Call to Farms

Ben Baichman-KassApril 9, 2020

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has raised myriad questions about the past and future of our global civilization. Questions about the past mostly relate to the level of preparedness for this kind of crisis, and while there are compelling argum... Read More

A history of Cuban medical aid at the front line of health crises

Marta MasseraMarch 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/EmbacubaChina/status/1224202474644557825 Last February, the Twitter account of the Cuban Embassy in China posted a picture showing two... Read More

The power of ignorance: Is Mauritius doomed to lose its history?

Shanda MoorghenMarch 27, 2020

After a complex decolonisation process rife with challenges, Mauritius was left to face its own demons. Freed from the shackles of British rule in March 1968, ... Read More

Democracy at Work: My Experience as a Volunteer Lobbyist for Climate Income

SubmissionMarch 24, 2020

Submitted by John Ploeg Last month, I joined a lobbying delegation from France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium in Brussels to present an ambitious climate policy to members of the European Parliament and Commission. Speci... Read More

Photos: Fighting for Liberty, Equality, and Sisterhood on International Women’s Day in Paris

Meike EijsbergMarch 22, 2020

On March 8th, people all across the world took to the streets to raise some much-needed awareness on women’s rights. Paris was no exception: despite the rain a... Read More

Contact tracing apps are a dangerous distraction

The Nature of Disaster

What are our leaders telling us during the COVID-19 crisis?

Inside the Narco-State: The Failure of Tajikistan’s Drug Policy