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The World in Brief
Winter 2026
In Kenya, restrictions on free speech extend from the streets to the screen.
Bravin Onditi
A brief review of the recent surge in racial book bans across U.S. schools, through the lens of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. An exploration of how these acts of censorship threaten democratic education, intellectual freedom, and the moral development of future citizens.
Mary Ellen Youtcheff
In Russia’s Far East, identity drifts toward Asia while Moscow looks the other way.
Hèlene Bunine
Once overlooked metals now shape global power, and China holds the advantage.
Aditeya Nulu
Through murals and marches, Los Angeles asserts its identity in the face of Washington’s crackdown.
Michaela Bini
Canada remembers and disputes its first prime minister's double legacy of nation building and Indigenous dispossession.
Sadie Danforth
The European Union appeals to Charlemagne for identity, but history offers fewer solutions than the future.
Maxime Bouchet
When governments use politics to erase the past, literature becomes a battleground for remembrance.
Sofia Suárez
The Global Minimum Tax has seen a new global order of winners and losers emerge.
Alexa Ghatas
“The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” Ernest Hemingway’s words, written during the turmoil of war, now resonate with a different kind of global struggle: the fight for the planet’s habitat.
Oscar Eveno
Assad's removal from power left many hopeful. Is that still the case?
Julnar Aizouki
The Franco-Algerian relationship continues to face strain under the weight of its past.
Pamina Barthas
As repression deepens in the Philippines, a new generation weighs fear against the necessity of dissent.
Vhon Michael Tobes
As president Zelensky's party dominates the legislature, the line between reform and autocracy grows thin.
Alisa Reviakina
Each and every one of Sierra Leone’s regimes vowed a new beginning; instead, corruption was the common thread between all of them.
Ibrahim Mustapha Fofanah
Three decades of selling off the state have left Italy poorer, more indebted, and dangerously exposed.
Alessandro Donati
Europe excels at planning and funding; turning those plans into real economic reform is another matter entirely.
Andrea Sirtori
Giving citizens a say over their taxes seems appealing...until it collides with the logic of democracy.
Eliot Forterre
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