When Prada sent braided leather sandals down a Milan runway last year, its show notes called them simple “leather footwear.” In India, the design has a name: the Kolhapuri chappal, a sandal made by hand in Maharashtra for roughly 800 years. The craft has been associated with Dalit artisan communities and has been protected by […]
Europe has been told to wake up so often that the phrase risks losing its meaning. The sovereign debt crisis exposed weaknesses in Europe’s economic architecture. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed dangerous supply-chain dependencies. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered the assumption that large-scale war had disappeared from the continent. At the same time, intensifying competition between […]
On September 16, 2026, President Vladimir Putin delivered his televised address on the eve of the State Duma elections. The opening was purely administrative: which offices were being contested, and the fact that the campaign was unfolding during the “special military operation.” Then, in the same even tone, he noted that Donbas and Novorossiya would […]
When Prada sent braided leather sandals down a Milan runway last year, its show notes called them simple “leather footwear.” In India, the design has a name: the Kolhapuri chappal, a sandal made by hand in Maharashtra for roughly 800 years. The craft has been associated with Dalit artisan communities and has been protected by […]
Europe has been told to wake up so often that the phrase risks losing its meaning. The sovereign debt crisis exposed weaknesses in Europe’s economic architecture. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed dangerous supply-chain dependencies. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered the assumption that large-scale war had disappeared from the continent. At the same time, intensifying competition between […]
On September 16, 2026, President Vladimir Putin delivered his televised address on the eve of the State Duma elections. The opening was purely administrative: which offices were being contested, and the fact that the campaign was unfolding during the “special military operation.” Then, in the same even tone, he noted that Donbas and Novorossiya would […]
The ongoing civil war in Sudan is one of the deadliest conflicts that the world has seen in recent years. It is one of the deadliest conflicts happening in the entire world. and yet the international community is choosing to look the other way because they do not care enough about African nations, and because […]
With rising costs of higher education, attending college is increasingly viewed as an investment in one’s future. Since 1963, the average annual cost of public college tuition has risen 312.4% when adjusted for inflation. Public colleges are those that rely on funding from state and federal governments. In the United States of America, 72.6% of […]
The United States’ National Security Strategy document, released in December 2025, dubbed President Donald Trump “The President of Peace.” This title recognized his role in securing harmony across eight conflicts during his second term in office, as well as normalizing relations between Israel and a number of Arab nations during his first term in the […]
While many question the logic and onset of the 2025 government shutdown, philosopher John Rawls would view it as predictable, far from an anomaly, a direct consequence of the breakdown in political trust and long-term erosion of public reason. It was not accidental. As Rawls posits in his conceptualization of public reason for liberal democracies, […]
Young Americans are turning out to vote in unprecedented numbers, driven by an urgent need to defend the democratic ideals to which this nation was founded. Since President Donald Trump began his second term in 2025, his administration has pursued radical conservative policies championed by the Heritage Foundation in Project 2025. In targeting issues like […]
In his 2025 inaugural address, the commander-in-chief of the United States promised, among other things, that “the vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department (DOJ) and our government [would] end.” This bold statement identifies three flawed, un-democratic characteristics within our Justice Department, and promises to bring these flaws to an “end.” This is […]
With thirteen Academy Award nominations, twelve British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominations, and ten Golden Globe nominations, Netflix’s Emilia Pérez defined the 2024 awards scene. Critics initially praised the movie-musical for its inclusivity, covering underserved topics such as Mexico’s cartel crisis and, within that, the struggles of the transgender community. Yet, with a […]
Pro-vegan documentaries are everywhere. Netflix alone features Seaspiracy, Cowspiracy, You Are What You Eat, the Gamechangers, and more. These documentaries offer a variety of perspectives on the benefits of veganism, emphasizing its health and sustainability benefits. Paired with an overwhelming number of studies, these documentaries might lead Americans to believe that veganism is the best […]
Candace Owens, an American political commentator, television personality, and New York Times bestselling author, has swiftly become a national star in conservative media. Boasting over four and a half million followers on Instagram, Owens has interviewed former president Donald Trump and entertained the idea of running for president herself. Owens argues against transgender rights, abortion […]
In his second inaugural address, president Donald Trump rattled off a list of legislative initiatives that he claimed would “completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal” that had been levied upon the American people. Among them were solutions to various hot-button issues which compelled voters to elect Trump to a second term, such as illegal […]
Although pre-election forecasts predicted the 2024 election would be mathematically closer than a coin flip, everything seemed to go perfectly for former President Donald Trump on Election Day. By receiving 2.5 million more votes than he did in the 2020 presidential election and flipping six of the seven swing states which voted for Biden in […]
The president’s power to pardon has been enshrined in the Constitution ever since it was first ratified at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Among the convention’s Framers, it was Alexander Hamilton who argued most fervently for the existence of pardon powers. Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that the president’s ability to grant clemency and pardons […]
In the coming decades, there are a handful of states that could realistically align themselves with either the liberal-democratic international order—a system of international relations defined by adherence to international law, open and liberal free trade, and belief in the natural rights of human beings—or today’s autocracies. Such geopolitically fickle states hesitate to commit themselves […]
