In 2015, researchers from the US Army Corps of Engineers published findings that, to Chesapeake Bay area residents, were likely unsurprising: Tangier Island is sinking, and fast. A tiny island west of Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the current home t...
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In 2015, researchers from the US Army Corps of Engineers published findings that, to Chesapeake Bay area residents, were likely unsurprising: Tangier Island is sinking, and fast. A tiny island west of Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the current home t...
In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...
In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...
On September 8, 2022, Mexican deputies voted to pass a constitutional amendment granting the Ministry of National Defense control over the National Guard until 2028. Not only is the amendment corrupt by giving the executive branch unchecked power, bu...
On September 8, 2022, Mexican deputies voted to pass a constitutional amendment granting the Ministry of National Defense control over the National Guard until 2028. Not only is the amendment corrupt by giving the executive branch unchecked power, bu...
It may be forever unknown whether a London barrister named Sir Cyril Radcliffe, sketching a map in the summer of 1947, pondered the words written a century earlier by a fellow countryman: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Still, the lines Rad...
It may be forever unknown whether a London barrister named Sir Cyril Radcliffe, sketching a map in the summer of 1947, pondered the words written a century earlier by a fellow countryman: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Still, the lines Rad...
Despite being one of the biggest stars in the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB), Yasiel Puig lived off of a meager $17 per month. With his talents, he knew signing with a Major League Baseball team in the United States could be his shot at a better lif...
Despite being one of the biggest stars in the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB), Yasiel Puig lived off of a meager $17 per month. With his talents, he knew signing with a Major League Baseball team in the United States could be his shot at a better lif...
As a grotesque, albeit limited, conflict in Ukraine sows fear across the West, some are wondering who could be capable of sparking all-out war across Europe. It might well be Aleksander Vučić, the current President of Serbia. Standing at 6’6”, ...
As a grotesque, albeit limited, conflict in Ukraine sows fear across the West, some are wondering who could be capable of sparking all-out war across Europe. It might well be Aleksander Vučić, the current President of Serbia. Standing at 6’6”, ...
“It has been a long time since we last met, and I hope it will be a long time before we have to part.” In his address to the 2018 Boao Forum for Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted this line from an old Hainanese folk song. Less than a week...
“It has been a long time since we last met, and I hope it will be a long time before we have to part.” In his address to the 2018 Boao Forum for Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted this line from an old Hainanese folk song. Less than a week...
Throughout history, youth voices across the world have played integral roles in protest movements. Facing coordinated state violence since the February 2021 coup, young people in Myanmar have taken to the streets to protest for democracy. Uyghur yout...
Throughout history, youth voices across the world have played integral roles in protest movements. Facing coordinated state violence since the February 2021 coup, young people in Myanmar have taken to the streets to protest for democracy. Uyghur yout...
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, changed the way Americans think about sugar and, most importantly, how t...
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, changed the way Americans think about sugar and, most importantly, how t...
Today in the United States, anyone equipped with the right string of 0s and 1s can 3D print an unregistered and untraceable assault rifle. That is thanks to Cody Wilson, a self-proclaimed anarchist who reached a settlement in 2018 with the US Departm...
Today in the United States, anyone equipped with the right string of 0s and 1s can 3D print an unregistered and untraceable assault rifle. That is thanks to Cody Wilson, a self-proclaimed anarchist who reached a settlement in 2018 with the US Departm...
An early assessment of the French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour Editors’ Note: This article was written in November 2021, so some facts and insights may be out of date. French politics have lurched to the right, and so has President Emma...
An early assessment of the French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour Editors’ Note: This article was written in November 2021, so some facts and insights may be out of date. French politics have lurched to the right, and so has President Emma...
In June 2021, the information of 700 million LinkedIn users—more than 90 percent of the platform’s accounts—was leaked on the dark web, with the hacker responsible publicly releasing the data of 500 million of these accounts and selling the rem...
In June 2021, the information of 700 million LinkedIn users—more than 90 percent of the platform’s accounts—was leaked on the dark web, with the hacker responsible publicly releasing the data of 500 million of these accounts and selling the rem...