Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Tulsi Patel In the sweltering heat under a waxy white tent in the Ambelia refugee camp, hundreds of injured individuals wait. They wait while the arid dust around them billows and their children cry with naiveté. They wait with a variety of ailments- paralysis, malnutrition, gun wounds - for which some have been waiting on treatment for over a year. Beginning in April 2023, millions of Sudanese people sought refuge in neighboring North and S

Briggs Murray On January 23, 2025, at a time when the biting cold would entice most Americans to huddle around their crackling fireplaces, on the other side of the world something remarkable was underway. In the sweltering tropical air of Bangkok, Thailand, over 100 couples withstood the discomforting heat of midday as they proudly filed into a shopping mall. This mall, the Siam Paragon, appeared quite ordinary on any normal day – its glass facade and golden trimming camou

Katelynn Landry The lecture Why Afro-Feminism Matters: Western Privilege, Intersectionality, and the Global South was hosted on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025, by Dr. Eric Touya de Marenne, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, and while teaching in New York was inspired by his African students to begin research into Afro-feminism. The panelists were Gugu Selela, who is in the final year of her doctoral studies and teaches courses on gender, sexuality, and Afr

Image source: Wikimedia Commons Matthew Ployhart Throughout late October 2000, thousands of shoppers could be seen surrounding stores...

Ryan Mehlem The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “The only constant in life is change.” Of course, most of humanity had decided...

Matthew Ployhart During a presidential address on April 14, 2021, American President Joe Biden announced his intention to withdraw...

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

Briggs Murray Beneath the arid, subtropical, scattered townships of the Sahel, above the overbearingly humid jungles of the Congo River...

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Matthew M. Ployhart I lurched forward in my seat as the boat slammed down into the icy waters of the Arctic after racing over another...

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

Matthew M. Ployhart It was a chaotic scene in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on February 14th, 1961. A reader of the American New York Times that...

Dee Vemuri Japan’s utilization of digital farming - the use of technology to integrate financial and field-level records in order to...

Tulsi Patel While tourism often generates images of famous attractions and endlessly redundant photos, it may be taking on a new form in...

Owen Eastman A long-standing aspect of the Chinese Communist Party’s political legitimacy has been their robust economic growth rates...

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

Jenna Maunsell Poverty is a persistent problem in Africa. An estimated 490 million people in Africa live below the poverty line. Poverty...

Matthew M. Ployhart ​​On the morning of February 4, 2022, Russia launched a new invasion of Ukraine. Although hostilities truly began in...

Hannah Stewart On the night of November 2, 2021, Peng Shuai, a retired Chinese professional tennis player, published a 1600-word essay...