World
After Assad: Framing Syria’s Next Chapter
On his 18th birthday, Muzaffar Salman received his first camera. Growing up in the ancient city of Homs, Syria, Salman was inspired by his father’s photographs of Europe and took up photography as a hobby. This interest stayed with him…
The Cost of Parenthood: Italian Surrogacy Ban and The Future of Family
This framing creates a paradox: while women are expected to bear the physical and emotional burdens of reproductive labor, their ability to negotiate fair compensation and labor conditions remains constrained.
An Immeasurable Cost: A Case for Continued American Support for Ukraine
Diana Razumova shared, “My cousin is serving in the Ukrainian army. He’s almost always on the front line. He […] mentioned that without US support, it would be almost impossible for Ukraine to fight.”
Georgia’s Last Stand: Poets, Protesters, and the Fight Against Russian Rule
On July 22, 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge, the poet Paolo Iashvili walked into the Writer’s House in Tbilisi, now a sanctuary for Georgia’s literary elite, then a courtroom of fear. The authorities had declared writers must…
A House on Fire: Russia’s Oligarchy Today
As Russian forces poured into Ukraine in March 2022, Italian authorities seized the world’s second-largest superyacht in the port of Trieste––a $578 million vessel owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, who built his fortune through ownership of Russia’s largest coal…
A Six-Hour Coup: How Polarization Plunged South Korea into Martial Law
Kyeonghee Eo, an assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, checked X on the morning of December 3rd, 2024. It was a week before her long-awaited trip to visit family in South Korea. What she saw…
The “Green” Mines: Lithium Mining and Destruction in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley
“We cannot talk about development without talking about conflict and violence,” Brazilian environmental activist and Decolonial Centre coordinator Gabriela Sarmet told The Politic. “Behind every development comes a trail of destruction.” Over the last five centuries, mining has left environmental…
Between Hope and Authoritarianism: Venezuela’s Perilous Position
“A lot of time has to pass before things change. We’ve grown up with the corrupt government that we have, so we can’t take promises of change too seriously,” said Nicole Viloria ’26, the president of the Yale Venezuelan Club…