Ukraine’s Next Chapter? 1,000 Days and Counting
As the Ukrainian conflict exceeds a thousands days of relentless fighting, the war has entered an unpredictable phase with heightened...
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Jade Thiebaut
1 day ago
Has the royal family in Spain become a symbol of division instead of unity?
The Spanish monarchy is a subject of significant divide within Spanish society. Indeed, the royal family raises many questions from a...
Ana Navarro
2 days ago
No Other Land wins IDFA Audience Award as Israel paves the way for Gaza’s resettlement
No Other Land has won the IDFA NPO Doc Audience Award 2024 , the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) public prize...
Zeteny Jakab
3 days ago
Data center wars: How the AI Revolution is drawing the new geopolitical battlelines
It is a 100,000 m2 large, energy-consuming, grey box, that stores innumerate computers. What is it? If your guess was a data centre, you...
Violette Gabriel
4 days ago
French mass rapes: How the horrific rapes of Gisèle Pelicot highlight the huge effort still needed to achieve gender equality
Trigger warning. This article tackles several difficult topics, including rape and being drugged. More and more people are claiming that...
Patrycja Tobola
5 days ago
Sunday Summary- 1st December 2024: Social Media Ban for Aussie Teens
Very demure word of the year 2024 The last week of November always tends to be chaotic. With Black Friday at the end of it, people...
Jule Frank
Nov 28
COP29 and the History of Climate Inaction
COP29: The ‘Finance COP’ Between November 11 and 23, 2024, COP29 convened for nearly two weeks of debates, press conferences, and...
Jaap Steunenberg
Nov 26
The Fatal Flaw of the Dutch Welfare State
The Netherlands is a rich country. On a global, even European scale, it is extremely wealthy. It consistently ranks high in quality of...
Alexiane François
Nov 25
“If Crisis Comes” Lessons from Sweden and the Nordics on War
For the next two weeks, in addition to their weekly magazines and newspapers, millions of Swedes will receive in their mailboxes what...
Jaap Steunenberg
Nov 24
Sunday Summary-24th November 2024
While it may seem Donald Trump is currently deciding the course of the next 4 years with his new government appointments, it is important...
Violette Gabriel
Nov 22
CC - Perfume's Grenouille and Frankenstein's Creature are More Similar Than We Think.
A few months ago, I read a book called Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Although I have read other books since then, I keep thinking about...
Mark Sijtsma
Nov 20
Monuments of Peril and Power: The Politics of Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers have long transcended their utilitarian function, now serving as emblems of national pride, political power and economic...
Beatrice Vaitkeviciute
Nov 19
To Live is to Perform: The Self-Fictionalisation of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977) was a novelist and a diarist who, in her tender, soulful works, tangled the imaginative nature of fiction with...
Jakob Aufenberg
Nov 18
Culture For a Cause: How DANA Maastricht is supporting Flood Recovery in Valencia
Once again, students have shown what they are capable of. After the catastrophic flooding in Valencia, which cost over 200 lives and...
Virgile de Maupeou
Nov 17
Sunday Summary – 17th November 2024
If there were any doubts about whether Donald Trump would follow through on the promises made during his campaign, his early nominations...
Finding the Academic Compass: UM’s Treasure Hunt in the Spam Folder
Last Wednesday (13th of November), chilling at the library, scrolling and making space in my Outlook student email, I went to the ‘Other’...
Germany: The New Sickman of Europe
“Blühende Landschaften” 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the former chancellor Helmut Kohl’s evocation of “Blühende...
Léa Besnard
Nov 15
Cancelled Protests in Utrecht: an Isolated Event or a Threat to the Right to Demonstrate in the Netherlands?
The nationwide protest against a 1 billion cut in the 2025 Dutch budget for higher education and research, originally scheduled in...
Carolina Scheuch
Nov 15
Why I Don't Biohack - and Neither Should You
Top foods for skin health, supplements for longevity, cold plunges, blue light blocking glasses, inflammation, red light therapy,...
Léa Besnard
Nov 14
The Fall of a Dictator: An Account of the Student-People’s Uprising in Bangladesh
Quotas for government jobs may not be what you think would spark up a revolution — even though they were indeed the initial driver behind...
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