Midnight, August 5. Twelve million people met with utterly consuming silence. No phone service, no internet, no television.
In a facility riddled with institutional deficiencies within a country in political turmoil, it is prison gangs—composed of the Philippines’ supposedly most unruly, most disobedient, most criminal—that maintain control, instill self-discipline, and create a culture ...
Taiwanese youth fear events in Hong Kong could be a warning for the future of Taiwan as China grows more authoritative.
Though Spain clutches Catalonia in an ever-tightening chokehold, on October 1, 2017, the indefatigable mobilization of the Catalan people still breathed life into democracy.
A courageous denunciation of the oppression and erosion of morality under Museveni’s cruel hand landed Nyanzi in jail.
Spain’s politicians underhandedly, yet firmly, grip the pens of the nation’s reporters—the separation between politics and press is an illusion, and a flimsy one at that.
The U.S.’s efforts to change China’s underlying institutions reflects the broader strategic relationship between the countries—a relationship with troubling historical antecedents.
“The parties have capitalized on a combination of climate change inaction, stagnation of Europe’s ruling elite, and the sharp radicalization of the political spectrum to make their mark.”
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