The PendulumNov 16, 20214 minAfrica’s Antidote: The World’s First Malaria VaccineMary Grace Nimmer Following recent years of stagnation in the decades-long fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
The PendulumNov 2, 20213 minLegal victories for Nigerians against the Shell CorporationIan Stewart Patricia Ogbonnaya shows the height oil rose to during an oil spill. Photograph: Maggie Andresen/The Guardian Shell, one of...
The PendulumSep 6, 20214 minGender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary SocietiesJade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...
The PendulumApr 26, 20214 minHotel CoronaHannah Roebuck In March of 2020, COVID-19 was tearing through Jerusalem. Case numbers were growing exponentially, hospitals were...
The PendulumApr 19, 20213 minMozambique: The Moving Goalposts of the War on TerrorIan Stewart Last week, hundreds of militant members of Al Shabaab, an Islamic group based in northern Mozambique (unrelated to the Somali...
The PendulumMar 3, 20213 minThe Complicated Case of the White AntNate Matzko On February 4th, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convened in The Hague, Netherlands, to deliver a verdict on the...
The PendulumNov 20, 20204 minChocolate Chip Cookies: Eldorado Park Remembers LockiesNate Matzko “They shot Lockies!” On August 26th, 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies left his home to make his evening rounds around his...
The PendulumOct 19, 20204 minTrinkets, Souvenirs, or Art?: African Art in the Face of Western ImperialismDevante Kee-Young For centuries, Africa has been—and continues to be—exploited by more industrialized technological powers such as the...
The PendulumOct 12, 20203 minCOVID Amongst Conflict and Crisis: How Syria Continues to Crumble Under the PandemicJade Killion Battered and bruised from almost a decade of violent conflict, humanitarian crises, and economic hardships, Syria has...
The PendulumSep 14, 20204 minA Mother’s Life in Occupied PalestineAmani Altwam It’s been 9 years since my mother has gone home. 9 years since she’s seen her childhood house. 9 years since she’s smelled...
The PendulumApr 19, 20202 minFemale Genital Mutilation: A Feminine SorrowMary Ann Fahmy In the poem Feminine Pain, Somalian Poet Dahabo Ali Muse writes, “it is what my grandmother called the three feminine...
The PendulumApr 3, 20203 minThe Lebanese Deviation Gavin Hunt Revolution. Last year was full of it, and the trend continues into this one. Hong Kong, Chile, Algeria, Spain, Ecuador,...
The PendulumFeb 28, 20204 minCoronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy? Aynsley Hartney and Austin R. Schlueter As of the time this article was written, there are over 80,000 reported cases of the coronavirus...
The PendulumFeb 21, 20203 minChaos or Community? Xenophobia in South Africa Tremain Prioleau Chaos or community? This is the question that looms over the beautiful skies of South Africa. A nation once revered for...
The PendulumFeb 6, 20203 minControversial, Yet Cultural: Female Circumcision in SomaliaEden Wallace While the practice of male circumcision remains prevalent in Western cultures, the practice of female circumcision is...
The PendulumOct 11, 20193 minThe Blue Bubble Jade Killion An unknown death toll with hundreds injured. Seven months of protests. No mass media coverage. Sudan has been taken over by...
The PendulumOct 3, 20192 minExamining the Israeli ElectionsTyler McDougald On April 9th, 2019, Israel held an election for their twenty-first Knesset, the country’s parliament. On September 17th,...
The PendulumSep 19, 20192 minThe Forgotten Voice in the Taliban Peace Talks Rachel Clyburn When President Trump officially ended the peace talks between the United States and the Taliban, reactions to the decision...
The PendulumApr 28, 20193 minConflict in Congo Worsens Ebola Outbreak Christian Adams In 1976 a village along the Ebola River witnessed the first recorded outbreak of the deadly virus named after the now...
The PendulumJan 18, 20184 minTrump's Role in the Israeli-Palestine Peace Process: Progressive or Destabilizing? The controversial “two-state solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict would, as the name suggests, allow Israel and Palestine to...