Splinter • 8th May 2025

Israel Is Starving Gaza

Israel has blocked aid from reaching Gaza since March 2. It has cut off new supplies of food, fuel, and medicine to more than 2 million people for more than two months. Israel is starving Gaza as it continues to bombard it, attacking the remaining infrastructure left that people need to survive, and displacing more than 400,000 civilians since Israel broke the ceasefire in March. 
Gavin Kelleher, humanitarian access manager in Gaza with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on a press call wi...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 • 14th June 2024

Ukraine's Summer of Uncertainty

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

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.

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.

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.

Vox • 30th January 2024

Would the US intervene to defend Taiwan? Ask Japan.

Even if Japan says yes and lets the US use its bases, it is no guarantee of an unchanged world. Some of that may depend on exactly what type of affirmative answer Japan gives. It could just grant access to the bases and attempt to remain out of the battle — though that may be as much China’s decision as Japan’s. In addition to granting that access, Japan could choose to provide logistical or operational support to the US from the start. That’s an outcome that some wargames, including one publish...

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 • 10th May 2023

How Russia’s invasion transformed one Ukrainian city

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

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 • 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.

Vox • 28th October 2021

Why thousands of Afghans are still on US military bases

One set of clothes took Enayatullah Sadat from Nimroz province, in the southwest of Afghanistan, to Fort Pickett, a United States military base in Blackstone, Virginia.

Vox • 27th September 2021

Germany’s (sort of) change elections

BERLIN — The release of one of the first election exit polls showed Germany’s center-left Social Democrats with a slight lead.

Vox • 28th April 2021

How Senegal stretched its health care system to stop Covid-19

DAKAR, Senegal — Aissatou Diao talked about Covid-19 a lot.

Vox • 1st April 2021

A pandemic year in the life of a New York City block

Jesús Delgado and three of his employees are making tortillas like they’ve been doing every day for the past month.

Vox • 12th February 2020

Why C-SPAN’s quirky call-in show has endured for 40 years

The Senate had just rejected witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and for those who had feelings about it, there was a phone number for “guilty,” another for “not guilty,” and another for “undecided.”

Intelligencer • 21st July 2017

Meet the Future Voice of the Brooklyn Nets. Maybe.

Things you learn at an open-call public-address announcer audition in a dead-quiet basketball arena: An accent — be it Brooklyn or Jersey or vaguely Australian — can disappear into the boom of the mic.

Intelligencer • 27th October 2016

Abandoned North Brother Island Might Finally Have (Legal) Visitors Again

North Brother Island is a 20-acre speck off the Bronx in the East River.

Intelligencer • 19th February 2016

Why You Can’t Go Here: NYC’s Perpetual Public-Toilet Problem

A decade ago, New York City made a deal for 20 automated public toilets — APTs, for short — to be installed in all five boroughs, at the behest of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Splinter • 24th February 2025

What The Hell Is Going on With Ukraine Negotiations?

As a candidate for president, Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

Splinter • 18th February 2025

JD Vance Makes the Case to the World on Why No One Should Invite Him to Anything

Munich, Germany – Vice President-ish – the hierarchy is confusing these days – J.D. Vance just whiffed on his first major foreign policy speech at the Munich Security Conference.

Splinter • 18th February 2025

Trump Might Take the Whole World Down With Him

As America threatened to return Donald Trump to the presidency, and then did, the world braced itself for a return of “America First.”

Aerospace America • 31st January 2025

For the Pentagon, widespread adoption of digital engineering remains in progress

The B-21 Raider looks like a cross between an airplane and an alien spacecraft.

Splinter • 26th January 2025

How Biden Broke His Promise on American Arms

This week, after 15 months of war, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire went into effect.

Splinter • 18th November 2024

So How Do We Save Democracy?

A little more than a year ago, in the fall of 2023, Poland held parliamentary elections.

Splinter • 31st October 2024

The GOP's Lawsuit Against Overseas and Military Voters Failed, But Why Is It Even a Thing?

Election season can have familiar beats: lawn signs, the exact same political attack ad airing every time you watch a show, the “I Voted” sticker you get after finally submitting your ballot.

Splinter • 23rd October 2024

Iran Doesn’t Have Nuclear Weapons Yet. Israel Might Push Them Closer.

In July 2020, an explosion damaged a facility at Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.

Splinter • 11th October 2024

Does the U.S. Even Want out of This Middle East War?

One year after Hamas murdered 1,200 and abducted hundreds more, and one year after Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment and starvation of Gaza killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, the war is unresolved and still expanding.

Internationale Politik Quarterly • 19th August 2024

Europe Can Expect Continuity from Kamala Harris

In February of this year, at the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President Kamala Harris had the job of reassuring allies about the reliability of America’s global leadership.

Splinter • 13th August 2024

A Lack of Aid and Water in Gaza Are Creating “A Catastrophe the Size of Which We Don’t Know Yet”

Searching for water, finding water, waiting for water, lugging the water in buckets and jerry cans: this is the daily struggle in many pockets of Gaza.

Splinter • 15th April 2024

The Conflict in Sudan the World Forgot

“No place seems to be safe in Sudan now,” Fatima Ahmed said.

The American Prospect • 5th February 2024

A Make-or-Break Year for a Ukraine in Limbo

It’s been a chaotic and contradictory week for Ukraine and its backers.

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 • 15th August 2023

An act of Congress could grant legal status to thousands of Afghan allies. What’s the holdup?

Two years ago, the Taliban marched into Kabul, the Afghan government collapsed, and the United States, already scheduled to depart on August 31, rushed to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies.

Vox • 6th December 2022

What to know about the $60 price cap, the plan to limit Russia’s oil revenues

A European ban and price cap on Russian oil went live this week, as the United States and its allies go after Russia’s all-important oil revenues.

Vox • 18th November 2022

Can Ukraine’s infrastructure survive the winter?

In Kyiv, residents prepare for daily blackouts.

Vox • 23rd June 2022

Afghanistan’s staggering set of crises, explained

The markets in Kabul have food, but few can afford it. A sack of flour can cost about $40.

Vox • 20th June 2022

Why grain can’t get out of Ukraine

Approximately 20 million tons of grain sit in storage in Ukraine, with few ways out of the country.

Vox • 4th May 2022

Are sanctions against Russia working?

The United States and its allies imposed unprecedented economic sanctions on Russia in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Vox • 3rd March 2022

The other members of Ukraine’s resistance

Tymofii Brik and his girlfriend spent Friday evening walking around their neighborhood in Kyiv, looking at the ground, at walls, and up at roofs

Vox • 28th September 2020

Oregon already votes by mail. Here’s what it can teach us in 2020.

Steve Druckenmiller loved voting, and he loved elections, but he really thought voting by mail was a crazy idea.

Vox • 28th May 2020

Trump’s purge of inspectors general, explained

“It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General,” President Donald Trump wrote to congressional leaders in a letter dated May 15.

Vox • 22nd August 2019

9 questions about the Hong Kong protests you were too embarrassed to ask

Protesters filled Hong Kong International Airport in August. Many wore black, the unofficial uniform of these demonstrations.