Gavin Hunt On November 20 of this year, the FIFA World Cup opened to fireworks and fanfare in Qatar’s Al Bayt Stadium, beginning a 29 day...

Blake Mauro The National Flags of China (left) and Brazil (right) Over the past two decades, China has stretched its reach far beyond its...

Ian Stewart A man carries a sign that reads: "Banks are not innocent in our misery" during a protest to demand that Haitian Prime...

Matthew M. Ployhart There are many instances in history in which a more advanced power has influenced the development of another nation...

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...

Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer The Russia-Ukraine conflict has roots which existed before February 24, 2022, before the invasion of...

Ava Barros In the United States military alone, one in four service women report being sexually assaulted by a fellow service member, and...

Clara Noble As the holiday season winds to a close, the last of the Christmas trees find homes on snow banks and curbsides and holiday...

Hannah Roebuck The Canadian federal government and First Nations leaders have come to a historic $40 billion agreement-in-principle to...

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....

Hannah Roebuck The Uyghur population in Afghanistan is estimated to be around 2,000 to 3,000. They arrived in Afghanistan in waves, some...

Mary Grace Nimmer Following recent years of stagnation in the decades-long fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...

Ian Stewart Patricia Ogbonnaya shows the height oil rose to during an oil spill. Photograph: Maggie Andresen/The Guardian Shell, one of...

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

Amani Altwam The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as Gitmo, is a United States military prison that is located on the Guantanamo...

Jade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...

Hannah Roebuck In March of 2020, COVID-19 was tearing through Jerusalem. Case numbers were growing exponentially, hospitals were...

Ian Stewart Last week, hundreds of militant members of Al Shabaab, an Islamic group based in northern Mozambique (unrelated to the Somali...