January is National Stalking Awareness Month, so Vanderbilt's Project Safe Center has advocated for anti-stalking causes to start in 2023. As this important effort draws to a close, it is important to...
At least ten building residents were killed last Thursday when a fire broke out in an apartment complex located in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Since then, the citizens of China have taken to the streets in many...
Arguably the largest sporting event on earth, the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar on November 20th. Five billion people are expected to watch the month-long soccer tournament. Given the enormous cultural...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva—or “Lula”—has beaten out Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s most recent presidential election. In the election, Lula secured 50.8 percent of the votes while Bolsonaro was just...
Censorship, the suppression of considerably ‘objectionable’ content, has taken significant precedence in Turkey after an attempted 2016 coup aimed to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration...
Image credit: “Great Hall of the People by Night” by Reinhold Möller is used with permission.
“Destroy the old world, create a new world,” reads a handwritten message on a pin-up board in Stevenson...
The Catholic Church in Nicaragua is under attack. In less than four years, the Catholic Church has endured over 190 attacks and desecrations. This shift in religious presence is unprecedented for Nicaragua,...
A divided country, Chile recently rejected a proposed left-leaning constitution that held the potential for a historical shift. Written entirely from scratch, the constitution could have become the most...
On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II passed away after a 70 year reign, the longest of any British or female monarch in history. Union flags were lowered across Britain as the nation entered a state...
In 2013, French troops entered Mali and have maintained a consistent presence in the nation ever since. The original intent of the operation was to challenge the attempted jihadist movement to control...
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Hindu-Muslim tensions are at an all-time high in India. What started with one school in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has escalated into a national issue,...
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For decades, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has laid claim to their neighbor, the Republic of China (otherwise known as Taiwan),...
