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...
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Violette Gabriel
1 day 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...
Sena Gonel
4 days ago
Germany: Lets Go Green, But What About the Economy?
Germany without a doubt has one of the leading economies in the world, and as their ambitious energy transition is coming underway, it...
Jule Frank
5 days ago
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sena Gonel
Nov 13
Femicides in Turkey: A National Emergency
The republic of Türkiye, majorly known as Turkey internationally, is a country in the Middle East famous for its tourist spots and...
U.S. Elections - He’s Back. What to expect from a second Trump presidency?
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. In what was predicted to be one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in...
Zeteny Jakab
Nov 11
Goodbye Eastern Europe? Opportunities in crisis for a region with a troubled past
The outbreak of the Ukraine War in 2022 pushed Eastern Europe into a perilous situation. A region historically ridden with imperial...
Simone Capuozzo
Nov 10
A Tale of Two Germanies - The Rise of AfD and BSW
The German coalition government has collapsed after Chancellor Scholz's decision to sack Finance Minister Lindner. The Chancellor has...
Patrycja Tobola
Nov 7
Poland's Deal With the EU: Protecting Borders or Violating Human Rights?
Since 2021, there has been an ongoing migration crisis present on the Polish-Belarusian border. Belarusian authorities, with the...
U.S. Elections: Perspectives from abroad: Interview of two American students living in Europe.
We are now one week from knowing who will be the new U.S. president for four years. Looking at the polls , the score plans to be tight....
Vanille Villez
Oct 3
U.S. Elections - Understanding Harris: a dive into Kamala Harris’ political strategy.
Kamala Harris’ sudden campaign start for the US presidential elections has not been easy. Since the 27th of June, with the debacle of the...
Elena Bovée
Sep 25
U.S. Elections - Inside the Democratic National Convention and the future of the United States.
In the United States, every four years right before the presidential election, the two major political parties hold a four-day convention...
Charlotte Pennings
Sep 16
U.S. Elections - 2024 Presidential Debate Bingo: Takeaways from Tuesday Night’s Comedy
On the evening of September 10th, 2024, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump went head-to-head for 90 minutes in their first-ever in-person...
Ana Navarro Bullo
Aug 28
A chat on war reporting with Wilson Fache: how war reporting is navigating a new wave of civilian journalism
“Journalism was not a child's dream”, says Wilson Fache, now an independent journalist from Brussels, “It’s only once I started that I...
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