Articles

From Kabul to Kyiv

Moscow’s history of proxy wars reveals the dangers of imperial ambition.

Arunabh Chakravorty

Building a rover at the bottom of Africa

They have limited resources and unlimited ambitions. The students of UCT Space and Astronomy Society are ready for take-off.

Achal Gupta and Irshaad Omar

How ESG became the new tool of global power

ESG began as a moral compass for businesses. Today it is wielded as a weapon in trade wars, diplomacy, and …

Anthea Grech

O complexo de vira-lata

From football to foreign policy, Brazil’s inferiority complex travels well.

Lara Solberg

Canada’s Macdonald question

Canada remembers and disputes its first prime minister's double legacy of nation building and Indigenous dispossession.

Sadie Danforth

The political stage

At festivals like Glastonbury and Boomtown, activism is louder than ever. But is it just part of the act?

Vittoria Cortese

Leaving Russia behind

Ukraine’s cultural and linguistic shift from Russia is a powerful act of identity and resistance — but one that Moscow …

Ksenia Martova

The painful price Colombia pays for political unrest

A senator’s assassination shakes Colombia, unsettling markets and reviving fears of instability.

Maria Camila Fernandez Giraldo

Charlemagne and the EU’s ancestral imagination

The European Union appeals to Charlemagne for identity, but history offers fewer solutions than the future.

Maxime Bouchet

Will Duterte’s arrest change Filipino political consciousness?

Duterte’s arrest forces the Philippines to confront its long affair with strongmen. It will be up to Filipinos to choose …

Jan Louis Layacan