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),...
This December, Russia issued several security demands to American diplomats, calling on NATO to halt its eastward expansion of alliances, to remove troops from former Soviet territories, and end Western...
Vanderbilt students recently had the chance to attend the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. These students participated in discussions at the prominent environmental...
After two rounds of voting, Gabriel Boric, a 35 year-old progressive legislator, was elected to be the next Chilean presidential. Boric, relatively young and inexperienced, ran on an agenda that contrasts...
The most recent coup in Sudan, in which the military took control, has sparked a discussion about the barriers to democracy of an unstable government.
The coup was apparently initiated in an effort...
