Illustration Credit: Eva Dinino Written by Mariana Bedon On September 30th, Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra dissolved Congress. It is the second time in Peru’s history that Congress has been dissolved. The last time this happened ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Protests And Strikes Against French President Macron Over Pension Reform by Hal Conte Plans by French President Emmanuel Macron to reform France’s pensions code, which includes 40 separate plans, into a ...
Illustration: Margot Whipps As the end of the semester gets closer, life can become hectic to say the least. In addition to studying for your finals, you most likely have more than a couple of ...
Writers: Rachel Warner and Jae-In Kim Film Introduction Directed by Bong Joon-ho, the man behind Snow Piercer and Okja, Parasite focuses on the destitute Kim family and their infiltration into the lives of the affluent ...
Illustration Credit: Phuong Huynh The Nobel Prizes 2019 were announced again this fall with a total of 14 laureates. Immediately, the Swedish academy awards were caught up in a controversy involving Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize ...
Illustration credit: Vy Le “It was the goblins”, my Mexican great-grandma used to reply as someone in the household thought an item went missing. “Let’s pray to St. Claire to find it!” As we walked ...
Korea’s Last Minute Decision to Continue Military Alliance with the U.S. and Japan By Yoona Lee On Friday, Korea decided last minute to continue the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with the U.S. ...
Photo by Gor Davtyan on Unsplash I finally discovered one of the best potluck ice breakers which avoids the cliche and overly-exhausted question, “So where have you traveled?” Instead, simply ask, “What is your most ...
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Social media has grown massively in the last couple of decades. Nearly half of the world’s population is in some way connected to the Internet (3.5 billion people out of 7.7 ...
Illustration Credit: Margot Whipps 11,097 km, 13-hour time difference, and 14-hour flight. I had to challenge these numbers to get a new name tag in my life: an international transfer student. In the summer of ...
Illustration credit: Kaitlyn Gross The language we speak influences our thoughts and our perspectives. As a bilingual person, who speaks English and Chinese, I resonate with the idea a lot through my personal experience. Maybe ...
Illustration credit: Phuong Huynh There is something about ghost stories: the thrill they give you from the jump scare, the spooky appearance, or the nightmares keeps you up past midnight. Nevertheless, while the purpose of ...
Image Source: Felipe Werneck/AP/Shutterstock In August of 2019, the Amazon Rainforest fires burned on the pages of almost every news source around the world. The world watched in panic as the world’s last mega-forest was ...
Image Source: asia.nikkei.com With crimson garments and gold-framed dark turquoise curtains providing an impressive backdrop, the new emperor of Japan, Naruhito, was officially enthroned on Tuesday with all of the ceremony that might be expected ...
Image Source: Cole Burston/Bloomberg/Getty Images Canada’s 2015 federal election resulted in a Liberal majority government led by progressive Justin Trudeau. Throughout his political career leading up to September of 2019, Trudeau in the position of ...
A woman in Xi’an purchasing dumplings with Alipay I met up with a friend in Shanghai last summer. He had recently moved from Taipei, where we competed on our company’s dragon boat team together, to ...
Puerto Ricans celebrate at the Puerto Rican Pride Parade in NYC. Image source: Medium “We have not given justice to the Spanish Pioneers…simply because we have been misled,” wrote Native American activist Charles Lummis in ...
Illustration credit: Sana Kewalramani During the week of spring semester finals I received an email from the chair of the journalism department David Mindich, with a subject line “Spend a week in Greece this summer and ...
Image source: Reuters/Yuri Gripas One had to flee and fled his capital city, two have been buried at the polls, and three others are hanging on by their nails. Since the beginning of the year, ...
Illustration credit: Eva DiNino “I don’t care about getting to know you. I want to know how you get to know.” With a flourish, Professor Hrebeniak dismissed the class, allowing all of us to marinate ...
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