Image credits: Wikimedia Commons By Simona Carnavale In Italy, the dinner table can be described as a cultural monument, where daily life, memory, and tradition converge. From long Sunday suppers to childhood memories of cooking with family members, meals are widely regarded as the most meaningful time of the day. In December 2025, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially recognized Italian cuisine as an Intangible Cultural Her

By Rachel French, an MPA student from the University of South Florida. (This article was originally printed in the Spring 2026 edition of our print magazine. To see the entire magazine, click here.) Introduction How does exploitation persist inside some of the world’s strongest democracies? Not for lack of laws, task forces, or political commitment, but because responsibility is divided. In many developed countries, anti-trafficking governance is dispersed across immigration

By Jackson Hufman, the former Europe Desk editor for The Pendulum and a current PhD candidate with the University of Tennessee's Department of Philosophy. (This article was originally printed in the Spring 2026 edition of our print magazine. To see the entire magazine, click here.) On March 2, 2026, President Emmanuel Macron stood atop a terrace at Île Longue, with a nuclear-powered submarine looming imposingly behind him, and proudly proclaimed, “to be free, one must be fear

Molly Schweickhardt Lying in an isolated Croatian countryside, a fallen concrete triple obelisk rests forgotten, coated in graffiti and overgrown with brush. Until it was destroyed in 1992, the structure proudly stood as a 56-foot-high monument of sharp intersecting planes, projecting dramatically upward from the hillside. Its brutalism and abstractness stand in direct contrast to the solemn beauty of the natural landscape around it. Despite its apparent unworldliness, archi

Jackson Hufman In 1892, Cecil Rhodes stretched his arms over Africa. From his hands hung phone lines connecting the continent’s two most...

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Matthew Ployhart Image credits: Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons 4.0 usage Russia’s presence in Africa has long-term historical...

Matthew M. Ployhart The Russo-Ukrainian War has gained significant global attention since the renewed Russian invasion of the country in...

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Matthew M. Ployhart In 862, Vikings under the command of Oleg of Novgorod founded the Slavic state of Kievan Rus, which was situated in...

Mary Grace Nimmer On July 15, 1975, the world witnessed the success of the first international space partnership, the Apollo-Soyuz Test...

Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer As discussed in part one of this series, Putin has repeatedly denounced and denied Ukraine’s independent...

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Gavin Hunt It’s the night of January 21st in Ukraine as a Boeing 747 cargo plane lands and begins slowly taxiing to its parking zone....

Clara Noble Russia—a hulking mass of nature, history, and people—can be understood through St. Petersburg’s recent explosion of modernism...

Mary Grace Nimmer In the past several decades, both Azerbaijanis and Armenians have called Nagorno-Karabakh home. In 1992, shortly after...

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