Refugee Lives: Trauma, Celebrations, and Limbo
In 2011, the Syrian Civil War placed refugees on the global stage. Five years later, we only hear about refugees at campaign rallies. What is their situation today?
After COVID-19: Implications on International Organizations and the Global Order
The post-COVID world may be a very different place to live. Due to rapid changes in geopolitics and social lives, we may find ourselves standing in unchartered territory.
The Economic Disaster Wrought by COVID-19
The globalized, industrialized, and incessantly-driven economic world that we live in is similar to an amateur riding a bicycle. The moment he bears a shock, there is a genuine fear of halting down and falling off the ridge. The COVID-19 Pandemic is fast-emerging as the greatest shock of our times to the world economy.
UBI: The Global Antipoverty Experiment
The back and forth of the best way to resolve wealth inequality may appear endless to most. Can a solution as simple as putting cash directly into the hands of the poor really have a profound effect on putting an end to poverty?
INDIAN GENERAL ELECTION 2019: TOWARDS A HUNG PARLIAMENT?
Senior Editor Siddharth takes a look at the upcoming elections in India and the potential outcomes
SUPER SOLDIERS WILL SOON WALK AMONG US—JUST NOT AS HOLLYWOOD IMAGINED
Senior editor Bailey Marsheck discusses current research into and future prospectives for "super soldier" technology.
SOCCER IN THE MOTHER CITY: CHALLENGING POST-APARTHEID INEQUALITIES THROUGH SPORT
Following her semester abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, Managing Editor Veronika Michels investigates the value of community action in connection with sport and childhood development in a country plagued by the social and economic reverberations of apartheid.
PORTUGAL, U.S. AND MEXICO: LESSONS FROM DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION (PART TWO)
Editor in Chief Mekalyn Rose discusses the racial and political origins of U.S. drug policies and their consequential role in shaping the growing opioid crisis.
REHEARSING FOR THE REVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW OF THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED
Editor-in-Chief Liliana Torpey gives an overview of participatory theater known as "Theater of the Oppressed" and explores the importance of art in social transformation.
THE FALSE NARRATIVE ON THE DALAI LAMA AND TIBET
Editor in Chief Omkar Mahajan analyzes the recent controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama and argues that much of the criticism is based on a false narrative.
THE SITUATION IN KASHMIR: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. SAIBA VARMA
Editor in Chief Omkar Mahajan recently interviewed Dr. Saiba Varma about the situation in Kashmir.
THE SAMI: A DISAPPEARING INDIGENOUS MINORITY IN SCANDINAVIA
Editor in Chief Omkar Mahajan gives a broad overview of the history of the discrimination that the Sami face in Scandinavia and how it continues to persist even in the present day.
THE POTENTIAL DESTRUCTION OF THE BUDDHISTS OF MES AYNAK
Editor in Chief Omkar Mahajan describes the ongoing situation pertaining to the Buddhist architecture of Mes Aynak and it's possible demolition by a Chinese Mining Company.