Lithium, sometimes referred to as “white gold,” is a necessary component of electric vehicle batteries and solar panels. Over the past three years, the clean energy transition has caused global demand for lithium to skyrocket. The metal is abunda...
Settler colonialism is an ever-evolving form of violence. In Australia, it began with the theft of Indigenous land, the enslavement and murder of Indigenous Australians, and the mass dispersal of deadly disease—forcing Indigenous populations deeper...
Though Portuguese missionaries first established the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1491, it was only under Belgian colonial rule in the late 1880s that missionaries arrived en masse, founding schools and hospitals a...
For much of its existence, Armenia has been tossed between its larger, stronger neighbors—first Rome and Parthia, then Byzantium and the Abbasids, and later the Safavids and Ottomans. This pattern shows no signs of stopping. On September 11, 2023, ...
For much of its existence, Armenia has been tossed between its larger, stronger neighbors—first Rome and Parthia, then Byzantium and the Abbasids, and later the Safavids and Ottomans. This pattern shows no signs of stopping. On September 11, 2023, ...
In 2001, the United States ushered China into the World Trade Organization, hoping to inspire the communist state to join the liberal economic order. In the decades since, China’s economy has experienced astonishing growth. In 2023, the state boast...
In 2001, the United States ushered China into the World Trade Organization, hoping to inspire the communist state to join the liberal economic order. In the decades since, China’s economy has experienced astonishing growth. In 2023, the state boast...
Nestled within the religious, political, and cultural crossroads of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia and Azerbaijan appear to be eternally locked in a heated ethnic struggle. More than a century ago, deep-seated tensions within the region manifested t...
Nestled within the religious, political, and cultural crossroads of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia and Azerbaijan appear to be eternally locked in a heated ethnic struggle. More than a century ago, deep-seated tensions within the region manifested t...
On June 2, 2024, when the polls close and all the votes are counted, Mexico will have elected its first female president. Either Claudia Sheinbaum of the left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) Party or Xóchitl Gálvez of the opposing P...
On June 2, 2024, when the polls close and all the votes are counted, Mexico will have elected its first female president. Either Claudia Sheinbaum of the left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) Party or Xóchitl Gálvez of the opposing P...
February 25, 2022. The morning wraps Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in a chilly fog cocoon. Anastasia Nikolaeva puts on a hoodie and a white coat, takes a sheet of blank paper, and makes her way to a busy intersection. It’s been around 24 hours since her c...
February 25, 2022. The morning wraps Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in a chilly fog cocoon. Anastasia Nikolaeva puts on a hoodie and a white coat, takes a sheet of blank paper, and makes her way to a busy intersection. It’s been around 24 hours since her c...
To an outsider, Sabantuy, the Southern Ural Festival of the Plough, might look like a battlefield. In this hilly region that draws the line between Europe and Asia in Russia, people don traditional fur-lined clothing, show up in horse-drawn carriages...
To an outsider, Sabantuy, the Southern Ural Festival of the Plough, might look like a battlefield. In this hilly region that draws the line between Europe and Asia in Russia, people don traditional fur-lined clothing, show up in horse-drawn carriages...
“The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women,” proclaimed First Lady Laura Bush in her radio address to the nation in 2001, as the United States entered Afghanistan in a war against the Taliban. Twenty years la...
“The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women,” proclaimed First Lady Laura Bush in her radio address to the nation in 2001, as the United States entered Afghanistan in a war against the Taliban. Twenty years la...
English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United was once a titan in English soccer, especially in the 1990s. However, it also experienced a long period of bad performances, which ultimately saw it fall from the top tier of the league in 2016. Res...
English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United was once a titan in English soccer, especially in the 1990s. However, it also experienced a long period of bad performances, which ultimately saw it fall from the top tier of the league in 2016. Res...
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, is perhaps best known for his work at Bletchley Park during World War II. Turing and his team developed Bombe, a machine that was capable of reliably deciphering the infamous German Enigma code. Wha...
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, is perhaps best known for his work at Bletchley Park during World War II. Turing and his team developed Bombe, a machine that was capable of reliably deciphering the infamous German Enigma code. Wha...
Beneath the high road to the district capital, large blue houses dot the hillside. Below them, you find one-story teal bungalows swallowed up by wild gardens and chickens. And below them, down the steep, uncut path through the jungle community, sit t...
Beneath the high road to the district capital, large blue houses dot the hillside. Below them, you find one-story teal bungalows swallowed up by wild gardens and chickens. And below them, down the steep, uncut path through the jungle community, sit t...
Chevron Corporation, an American petroleum refineries company, recently launched the sale process for a web of its oil and gas assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interestingly, this is not a singular event, but rather a pattern. In the recen...
Chevron Corporation, an American petroleum refineries company, recently launched the sale process for a web of its oil and gas assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interestingly, this is not a singular event, but rather a pattern. In the recen...
In the world of women’s soccer, victory has long been synonymous with the United States. Since the inception of the Women’s World Cup in 1991, the United States has consistently secured at least a third-place finish and won the tournament four ti...
In the world of women’s soccer, victory has long been synonymous with the United States. Since the inception of the Women’s World Cup in 1991, the United States has consistently secured at least a third-place finish and won the tournament four ti...