Image credits: Wikimedia Commons By Tulsi Ankur Patel Introduction On a breezy fall evening in 1928, after a restful summer vacation, Alexander Fleming returned to a messy lab bench. Sorting through different petri dishes of Staphylococcus bacteria that he had forgotten to place in the incubator, he realized a moldy film had formed over his dishes, possibly contaminating the samples. But, as he went to throw them away, he realized something fascinating. On his dishes, the mo

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 Sara Adkins, reporting from Almaty, Kazakhstan through the University of Georgia's Russian Overseas Flagship Capstone program. (This article was originally printed in the Spring 2026 edition of our print magazine. To see the entire magazine, click here.) At the end of December 2019, the People’s Republic of China reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology. Not even three months later, on March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the outbr

Robert Johnson Microsoft, Google, and Amazon’s data centers are receiving priority access to freshwater in drought-stressed areas globally, amplifying local communities' water scarcity. Yet, these tech giants plan to continue expanding their infrastructure within these regions. Moreover, residents are often forced to take action through grassroots activism, as their local governments often welcome these companies as neighbors without regard to those living in these areas. S