Foreign Policy • 8th July 2025

USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands

In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office for a second term.

Vanity Fair • 19th February 2025

“Are We Still Friends?”: How Donald Trump Is Unraveling the Western Alliance

European officials were bracing for a more adversarial America ahead of the Munich Security Conference, a diplomatic gathering that has traditionally been a showcase for the Western alliance.

New Lines Magazine • 7th January 2025

Italy’s Plans To Process Migrants in Albania

At the edge of a flat expanse of pavement, several small ships were moored side by side.

Splinter • 5th April 2025

DOGE Destroyed America's Ability to Respond to Myanmar's Disaster

On March 28, a magnitude 7.7-earthquake struck Myanmar (also known as Burma), near Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city.

Devex • 24th February 2025

How the US helped protect a $20B promise to Ukraine ahead of Trump

In October 2024, the World Bank approved a new fund for Ukraine.

Aerospace America • 2nd April 2025

Golden Dome: Smart strategy or risky business?

Imagine that tensions between the United States and a nuclear-armed adversary are intensifying.

Global Defence Technology • 21st June 2025

The Booker dilemma: inside US Army transformation - Global Defence Technology | Issue 153 | June 2025

Officially, the M10 Booker is a ground combat vehicle.

Global Defence Technology • 28th April 2025

Friends like these: US vs Europe - Global Defence Technology | Issue 152 | April 2025

In March 2025, the outgoing Portuguese Defence Minister questioned his country’s potential purchase of F-35s amid concerns around the United States’s reliability as an ally.

ARTnews.com • 16th April 2024

At the Venice Biennale, Ukrainian Artists Examine the Many Realities of Russia’s War

In the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, civilians seemingly mobilized overnight.

Green European Journal • 14th February 2025

What Happened to Germany’s Climate Movement?

Last year, Katharina Kewitz, a 26-year-old from Lübeck, northern Germany, joined fellow climate activists for a meeting with bus drivers.

Vox • 30th January 2024

Would the US intervene to defend Taiwan? Ask Japan.

TOKYO, Japan — If we’ve got to pick a year, it’s 2027.

Splinter • 14th June 2024

Ukraine's Summer of Uncertainty

LVIV – Andriy Kravchuk and Nazar Bihun want to make this a war between devices.

Vox • 10th May 2023

How Russia’s invasion transformed one Ukrainian city

In Kharkiv, you hear the boom first. Later, the air-raid siren blares.

Foreign Policy • 7th June 2024

The Party That Could Shake Up German Politics

STUTTGART, Germany—At a rally organized around Germany’s newest political party on May 25, those in the crowd seemed most eager to talk about what was wrong with the country’s other parties.

Splinter • 31st July 2024

The Crisis in Sudan, Explained by an Expert

On Saturday, more than 20 people were reportedly killed when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur.

Splinter • 11th June 2024

What to Make of Europe's Far-Right Spike

UTRECHT, Netherlands – At last Thursday’s election party for the Netherlands’ left-wing coalition, not losing felt almost as good as a dominating win.

Vox • 30th November 2023

There are now more land mines in Ukraine than almost anywhere else on the planet

The sign is red, marked with a skull and crossbones and a warning: “Danger mines!”

Vox • 14th October 2023

Poland’s democracy is on the brink. Can these elections save it?

WARSAW, Poland — “We have been talking that these are the most important elections since 1989, which was the first partly free elections since the fall of communism,” Jakub Kocjan, a rule of law campaigner for Akcja Demokracja, a Polish pro-democracy organization, told me from his apartment in Warsaw, less than a week before parliamentary elections that may determine the democratic future of Poland.

Vox • 30th September 2023

2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons

The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s.

Vox • 28th April 2023

Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?

GENEVA — Venomous Agent X is a deadly nerve agent, though you likely know it by another name: VX.

Vox • 16th December 2022

Europe’s unprecedented response to Ukrainian refugees faces new challenges

BERLIN — People fleeing Ukraine arrive at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof on every train from Warsaw, volunteers say.

Vox • 18th November 2022

Can Ukraine’s infrastructure survive the winter?

In Kyiv, residents prepare for daily blackouts.

Vox • 17th October 2022

Why firewood is suddenly in high demand in Germany

PUTZBRUNN, Germany — Konrad Kötterl lights another cigarette, which seems risky in a barn full of firewood.

Vox • 27th August 2022

Public transit for nine bucks a month? Germany tried it.

MUNICH, Germany — Maybe you buy the 9-Euro-Ticket to travel from Saxony to Bavaria to go to the Helene Fischer concert in Munich.