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To Birth or Not to Birth?
A Baby Bonus Americans are being asked an interesting question: “would you have a child if it meant you received $5,000 cash, no strings...
Bas Crousen
May 24, 2025


Pulping Fiction: Where Books go to Die
Most books do not get a happily ever after. That is the realisation I had while working at the Foire du livre de Bruxelles , Belgium’s...
Alexiane François
May 24, 2025


Results of the University Council Elections 2025
“ Make Maastricht University Great Again” This year, the elections for the University and faculty Councils took place between the...
Vanille Villez
May 23, 2025


Habemus AI: The Vatican’s Approach to New Technologies
The Catholic Church, with its 2000 years of history, predates the formation of all European states, making it one of the oldest...
Simone Capuozzo
May 23, 2025


Housewarming
The trees around the meadow sway lightly in the breeze. Beneath them, the tall grass is brighter than usual, cast in artificial light for...
A.G Thor
May 21, 2025


Fighting and negotiating with the Taliban – An Interview with Human Rights Defender Nazifa Jalali
“I'm impressed… I'm shocked… I have no words”. That’s all I was able to utter when Nazifa told me her story. Afterwards, I blamed myself...
Esther Wolff
May 20, 2025


Pope-litics: the American Impact and its Global Implications
With his first address, last Sunday, the new Pope - Leo XIV - has officially announced the direction of his papacy. These intentions set...
Calista Longo
May 19, 2025


Sport power: How does the USA use sport as a geopolitical weapon
“In my first term, I negotiated the return of the World Cup to America. And now, in my second term, I’ll have the honour to host the...
Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
May 18, 2025


Secrets the Sky keeps
I like the way people talk about those who are losing their minds. They say I’ve got my head in the clouds, and I imagine I actually do....
Clara Ledoux-Vanek
May 17, 2025


CC: Book censorship: an American phenomenon and a European crisis
The spectre of censorship looms darker than ever. In a concerning sequence of events, public libraries in the US are increasingly...
Simone Capuozzo
May 16, 2025


Pope Leo XIV: Will the legacy of Pope Francis be continued?
On May 8th, when the white smoke came out of the chimney, the crowd on St. Peter’s Square in Rome cheered in excitement. With the...
Patrycja Tobola
May 15, 2025


The Cinema Complex
My €19 Redemption Arc During my four-month Korean Media and Popular Culture class, the professor showed us the box office sales in South...
Brooke Betten
May 14, 2025


ⵣ Is History repeating itself? The Shared Struggle of the Amazigh and Palestinian People ⵣ
(Garanger, 1960) titled: A 1960 photograph of an Algerian woman , Marc Garanger A Reflection on Resistance and Modern Colonialism In May...
Guest Writer - Elisa Bianchi
May 14, 2025


That Was Close
When Friedrich Merz was officially elected Chancellor of Germany last Tuesday afternoon, he appeared visibly relieved. His conservative...
Jule Frank
May 13, 2025


2025 Reformation Act: A New Hope for South Africa?
“Law is a powerful tool for social ordering”, writes Katharina Pistor in The Code of Capital . In her work, she argues that law not only...
Elide Saia
May 12, 2025


“La Vie en Green?” - Success and challenges of green policies in Paris
Is Paris a green policy’s “ leader ”? As written on the municipality website in 2019, this is at least what the French capital claims....
Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
May 9, 2025


Coriolanus Snow finds out about Hobbes
If you’ve read Suzanne Collins’ masterpiece (yes), you know that the Hunger Games are these annual events in which children from the 12...
Violette Gabriel
May 8, 2025


Sink the Economy to Save It? Inside Trump's New Economic War
Why would the President of the United States intentionally sink his own country’s economy—and with it, the global one? Why does Trump...
Lisa Volpin
May 7, 2025


The Church and the Global South: Prospects of Catholicism in the post-Franciscan era
“The Church is no longer Eurocentric” . While this quote from Cardinal Sarah of Guinea is from ten years ago, it rings more true than...
Zeteny Jakab
May 6, 2025


50 Shades, All Gray
What if I were to tell you your world is fading to gray - literally? You may not believe me, but look around you. Look at the objects...
Calista Longo
May 5, 2025
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