Russia and Ukraine have been involved in a 14-year conflict that has become increasingly tense over the past few months. The conflict began in 2008,…
Posts published in “Volume 2 Issue 3 (February 2022)”
In May of 2021 Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced plans to “reopen” the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. The consulate closed in 2019, when the…
In order to find out more about this crisis, we turned to Ilya Ponomarev, a seasoned Russian politician. Ponomarev was a member of the State…
The International Space Station (ISS) is a revolutionary research tool that has enhanced our understanding of deep space, physics, and human life. Over its two…
The Amazon rainforest, an essential piece of the planet––spanning nine South American countries––makes up half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. Sixty percent of the…
The first six weeks of 2022 have been the deadliest for journalists in Mexico since 2012. Five journalists have been murdered since the start of…
Poland has had a fraught immigration policy throughout its post-communist history. Following World War II, and occupied by the Soviet Union, Poland was a satellite…
Over this year’s Holiday break, I was an onlooker at our family’s annual game of Risk, the classic game of war and international diplomacy. For…
“Just bring everything you could need,” my mom stressed through speaker phone as I scrambled to put together the endless stream of paperwork for my…
Following the demise of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, Russia and Ukraine have maintained a complicated and tense relationship. Russia…