AI has started to infiltrate every aspect of our daily lives. From small scale cases about individual harm to international military implications, experts continue to struggle over the ultimate question: how do we regulate this new technology for safety and misinformation without infringing on free speech rights?
However, such inspiring American success stories have become rarer in recent years. Income and wealth inequality have risen sharply in the past four decades, while intergenerational mobility has been on the decline. In the 1980s, the top ten percent of income earners made 35% of the total income in the United States. By 2020, the top ten percent’s total income share had expanded to 45%. Many factors are responsible for the reduction in upward mobility, including unequal economic growth across classes, declining financial security, diminishing quality of public education, and reduced employment opportunities.
The question of Scottish independence continues to evolve as the U.K. sees new political dynamics, the oil question ferments, and Scottish people reconsider their role within Europe.
When Orbelina fled El Salvador’s civil war for Los Angeles in 1985, she believed she was escaping violence. Instead, across generations of her family, she witnessed the same patterns of disappearance, gang violence, and impunity reemerge as MS-13 grew from a neighbourhood gang into a transnational symbol of violence and belonging.
Across Europe and North America, millions of cultural artefacts remain housed in museums far from the communities they originated from. As repatriation efforts expand, debates over ownership, colonial history, and the role of museums are shifting beyond legal questions alone, raising broader issues of cultural preservation, accountability, and institutional reform.
Since 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been transferred from occupied territories into Russia that officials describe as humanitarian evacuation but investigators increasingly characterize as abduction and forced assimiliation.
Charly Triballeau / Al-Monitor On the southwest side of Chicago, there is a stretch of shops and restaurants that locals recognize as “Little Palestine.” It is the place where geopolitics quickly turns personal. A seemingly average street transforms into conversations…
Bryan Banducci / The New York Times In the Metro Detroit suburbs, on a morning in 2020 he can no longer place, Omar Zahran accepted a DoorDash order for a box of donuts from Krispy Kreme. The drive was roughly…
