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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 Human Cost of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Yegor RubanovMarch 30, 2024

“I should have died two times already,” said Nataliia Shuliakova with a somber smile. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has unimaginably changed her life. When the war broke out in early 2022, Shuliakova and her family temporarily relocated to Moldova….

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The Struggle to Be Heard: The Underrecognition of Endometriosis

Alexia DochnalFebruary 28, 2024January 21, 2025

As a teenager growing up in Austria, Veronika Denner heard that the pain she felt “every single second of every single day” was simply something she had to endure. Denner graduated from Yale in December 2023 and is an endometriosis…

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Untreated Wounds: The Quest to Restore the Rule of Law in Poland

Alexia DochnalFebruary 28, 2024January 21, 2025

Interviews with Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Matczak, and Tuleya were conducted in Polish; their remarks have been translated. Sunday, October 15, 2023 marked a twist of fate for Poland’s democracy. Citizens flooded voting stations to participate in the national parliamentary elections. Voter turnout…

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Embattled and Emboldened: The Many Fronts of India’s Grand Strategy

Anish BeeramJanuary 25, 2024February 25, 2024

Since the early 2000s, buttressed by the weight of its technological advancement and marshaled by burgeoning ideological schisms, India has forged an increasingly complex net of strategic relations. Accordingly, the landscape of Indian international affairs, divided between India, America, and…

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A Woman’s Place: The Race for Mexico’s First Female President

Nicole ChenJanuary 18, 2024November 28, 2024

Classrooms are now tense encampments for student protestors at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico. Marisa Belausteguigoitia, a full-time lecturer at UNAM whose research focuses on collective young feminist protestors, shared that…

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Global Fever: The Climate-Driven Infectious Diseases Threatening Worldwide Health Systems

Phoenix BoggsJanuary 18, 2024November 28, 2024

In the beginning of the 19th century, New Orleans was one of the United States’ wealthiest and largest cities. Its port shipped the produce of the American interior to worldwide markets, and wealthy merchants walked the streets in the latest…

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Global Challenges, Global Solutions: A Conversation With Ted Wittenstein

Cat King and Hannah KotlerJanuary 18, 2024January 25, 2024

Edward (Ted) Wittenstein YC ’04, YLS ’12 is a former intelligence professional and diplomat. After graduating from Yale College, he served as an intelligence policy analyst for the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of…

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Shenzhen Rewind

Linxi Cindy ZengJanuary 18, 2024January 19, 2024

For three years, Shenzhen was my address, but not my home. The miracle city only felt aggressively utilitarian and vacuously cold to me—until I started seeing it through color-suppressant filters. For me, it takes more than one story to understand…

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