Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite was the first South Korean film to be awarded the Palme d’Or. The film uncovers the South Korean class struggle...

Countless artificial intelligence (AI) platforms make use of content moderation filters to prevent harmful and inappropriate output from...

The South African government has a longstanding history of HIV denialism. Throughout his presidency from 1999 to 2008, Thabo Mbeki...

“What happens to a country without land? Where will we call home?” Such are the considerations facing Tuvalu, a small island nation in...

The first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ivan Bunin, was unable to do so as a proud representative of his country....

The first recorded instance of a political sex strike—when women actively withhold sex from men as a temporary means of political...

As cities worldwide emerge from the social and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, urban planners have discovered a...

Luben is a satiric channel that posts videos, articles, and memes that mock Greek public life, including reality TV, news fails,...

India, the world’s largest democracy, seems to be slowly but surely falling into a state of restricted freedom under the control of the...

Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over...

Debates about fertility rates rage around the world. India is no exception. As a country where family and children are valued above...

In an anonymous statement to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), an Egyptian woman described in painful detail her...

On January 28, 2023, US officials first noticed a mysterious object floating over the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. The...

If the war in Ukraine can be said to have a silver lining, it is the bringing together of a nation once sharply divided along linguistic,...

Brazil’s Cerrado region, the most biodiverse savannah in the world, is home to the geraizeiros, a native population of mixed...

A girl of just 15 sobbed on live television while her coach questioned why she hadn’t kept fighting. The silver medalist broke down,...

This June, a violent clash broke out in Tanzania between a group of indigenous Maasai herders and Tanzanian state security forces. In...

For the past decade, progressive discourse around sex work has revolved around which comprehensive national legal...

Germany’s doctrine of de-escalation and demilitarization had deep roots. Then, Russia invaded Ukraine. Speaking before the German...

In 2024, exactly one hundred years after Paris last hosted the Summer Olympics, France will once again welcome the Games. With an economy...