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Soldiers for Statecraft: Russia’s Ambitions in Ukraine and the American Response

Axel de VernouJanuary 29, 2022March 6, 2022

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The Cost of Parenthood: Italian Surrogacy Ban and The Future of Family

Nicole ManningMarch 21, 2025March 21, 2025

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.

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An Immeasurable Cost: A Case for Continued American Support for Ukraine

Pola JancewiczMarch 21, 2025March 29, 2025

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.”

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Georgia’s Last Stand: Poets, Protesters, and the Fight Against Russian Rule

Eliza DauntMarch 18, 2025March 21, 2025

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…

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The world’s second-largest superyacht in the port of Trieste.

A House on Fire: Russia’s Oligarchy Today

Lena CassidyMarch 14, 2025March 15, 2025

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…

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A Six-Hour Coup: How Polarization Plunged South Korea into Martial Law

Jaeha JangMarch 12, 2025March 21, 2025

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…

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The “Green” Mines: Lithium Mining and Destruction in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley

Larissa de Oliveira GarcezJanuary 18, 2025January 31, 2025

“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…

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Between Hope and Authoritarianism: Venezuela’s Perilous Position

Suren ClarkJanuary 18, 2025

“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…

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OPINION: Democracy in Distress: How Mexico’s Judiciary Lost Its Independence

Hanna Klingbeil CanaleJanuary 18, 2025April 9, 2025

Mexico’s democracy, after years of resilience and progress, is tumbling toward an authoritarian abyss.  As of September 15th, 2024, the judicial branch—formerly made up of judges appointed by the government—will now be elected by the populace. The public, however, will…

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