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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
Europe excels at planning and funding; turning those plans into real economic reform is another matter entirely.
Andrea Sirtori
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Dante’s famous quote perfectly encapsulates the feeling new Italian medical students face. By swapping one entrance test for three months of pressure, Italy shifts the bottleneck upstream without fixing the doctor shortage.
Constance di Mauro
Under Maduro, Venezuelans lost their right to free speech, protest, and vote. Since his capture, they wait to see if American rule will be any different.
Mariam Hajjar
The city that fuels Iraq’s oil industry now faces the environmental costs alone.
Reebaz Hasan Qader
Elections are usually harbingers of change. That is not the case in Uganda.
Janice Nkajja
How Kazakhstan’s capital market is learning trust before scale.
Diyarali Gainollauly
When policy opens doors, progress can look convincing, but for many female entrepreneurs in India, the freedom to take the risk remains uneven.
Reeva Vyas
From football to foreign policy, Brazil’s inferiority complex travels well.
Lara Solberg
Elections are usually harbingers of change. That is not the case in Uganda.
Janice Nkajja
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
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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