By Michael Xizhuang Zhou
As Yuval Noah Harari reminds us in his best-selling book Homo Deus, “history does not tolerate a vacuum.” Even as we solve old pro... Read More
By Martha Schillmöller
For Adnan Hadad, the Syrian war did not kill the dream of democracy that fuelled the protests in 2011. But like many others he wants ... Read More
By Analucía Partida and Kavita Kapur
In mid January 2019, an issue that caused international outrage in the summer of 2018 resurfaced on the news: family se... Read More
By Sara Bundtzen
On February 20, in his annual address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin warned top U.S. policymakers to “calculate the rang... Read More
By Abe Collier
There was once great hope in the political left. In 1917, it celebrated the rise of communism in Russia as the liberation of peasants and wor... Read More
By Martha Schillmöller
The harsh anti-immigration stance of the Hungarian government has been slowly deteriorating the respect for human rights and in... Read More
By Sara Bundtzen
After withdrawing from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the U.S. administration is taking its next step to erode prospects for mul... Read More
by Margarida Teixeira
As Europe struggles to manage the influx of refugees at its borders, some arrivals are given preferential treatment while others are ostr... Read More
by Gabriela Bernal
An authoritarian government; violent crackdowns on civilian protesters; mothers burying their teenage sons killed by members of the army; pe... Read More
by Ole Jakob Weber
What are today’s common goals for the European project? Judging from daily politics and the newspapers: there are very few. But judging from... Read More