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A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID

Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War

… War in the Sudan broke out between the  paramilitary militia Rapid … RSF as terrorists. Yasir al-Atta, the Sudanese army deputy commander, said in an interview on August 3, 2024, that the … Sudanese writer al-Sadiq al Raziqui wrote on Al-Jazeera’s website that mercenaries returning from  Yemen in 2019 were …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … ignored due to its political might and copious resources. Today we turn our attention back to the nation that ultimately … And they're going to create their own drug control bodies to kind of regulate and keep an eye on how much drugs …

Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics

… adorned Prague Castle and the colossal Metronome draped in darkness. At the stroke of midnight, the Metronome (which … west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … too much national sovereignty to the EU governing bodies. At the time of publication of this article (July …

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

… Three days before Americans gathered around their tables to carve … Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics since 1980, having come to power on a wave of popular support developed during … lice-infested cells with their children strapped to their bodies. After describing the courageous acts of WOZA activists …
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.

Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy

… United States and European Union began to levy increasingly damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … armored vehicles. In another instance, the engines of Bombardier light off-road vehicles were found in the Iranian …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… surreptitiously acquired from Stratfor, the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an airstrip for bombing a dam in the … navigated until 1968 by a team of British and Ethiopian soldiers and civilians equipped by the Royal Military College …
Billboard of Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, 2015.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Democratization Shell Game

… both countries appear to break from the autocratic past and complicate our understanding of their political future. In … Both reform packages passed through popular referenda with wide margins. The presidents of Kazakhstan and … years of the USSR.  The two leaders quickly tossed aside Communism as a governing ideology and instead embraced …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… In November 2018, voters in Florida approved a ballot initiative that amended the state's … the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … deeds or tragic events such as the Boston Marathon bombing. Dating back to English and continental European law, …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… of labor shortages and a migration crisis . Despite an abundance of job openings, hiring has remained remarkably flat … they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of … Ajo, Arizona. That bipartisanship seems to have all but died over the past decade, as the resurgence of identity …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

… archives, in the coastal African country's capital of Dakar. The archives reside in an administrative building in … loud chanting and shouting. Toyota pick-ups raced about, soldiers and police hanging precariously off the sides and … starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the …

Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill

… United States. The press, the government, and the medical community claim, often and loudly, that these numbers augur … Neither of these conclusions was foregone; both were expedient answers to social and political pressures. Indeed, … Quickly backed by such activist luminaries as Jane Addams and Florence Kelley, Epstein and his intellectual …