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…
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…
“Faschisten sind keine alternative für Deutschland.” Fascists are not an alternative for Germany. “Kein platz für nazis.” No place for Nazis. “Nie wieder ist genau jetzt.” Never again is right now. From Berlin to Munich and from Hamburg to Dresden,…
The West Bank’s setting sun painted long shadows on the ground as Husam Zomlot, the de facto Palestinian ambassador to the United States, stood on the balcony of his family home in Ramallah and gazed over the undulating hills. The…
In February 2023, hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the streets of Madrid, Spain’s capital city, to voice their outrage at the deterioration of public healthcare in the region. According to the protestors, Madrid’s right-wing government has paved the…
With a population eager to respond to the invasion of Ukraine and a government aware of the long-term security and economic vulnerabilities, Germany has decided to detach itself from Russian oil and gas while revolutionizing its industry and military might. These sweeping transformations are here to stay.
“Our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises,” warned United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on February 28th in response to the release of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on…
Approximately 117,000 Ukrainian refugees have entered Austria since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The crisis has presented new challenges for Austrian refugee organization The Connection.
