Why do some wars absorb months of the U.S. news cycle, yet others are never mentioned and entirely unknown to most citizens? When you think of ongoing wars, you think of those in Israel-Palestine and Ukraine. Both situations have received intense focus from Western media, and in each case, a participant is being subsidized by the American government. There are, however, other conflicts raging across the globe that do not receive such attention or funding. Why is this? Why is the war in Armenia not similarly covered? Why not the civil wars in Yemen, Myanmar, Ethiopia and Sudan? These wars result…

Photo courtesy of Brian Lawless/PA Ireland has long been known to be a peaceful prosperous republic, yet Nov. 23 was one of the state’s most significant days since its founding. An attack near a school left two children and three adults injured or in critical condition. Public speculation on the attacker’s Algerian nationality and status as an immigrant sparked reactions from the anti-immigration faction in Ireland. Protests were improvised via social media, and that night police who arrived at the protest were shocked to encounter uncharacteristic riots and mob violence from the citizens of Dublin. The eruption of dissidence is…

Big Picture What was it Mao said? “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” We don’t much like Mao in the U.S. and for good reason. But we seem to like this mantra of his quite a lot. Non-interventionism is the foreign policy doctrine focused on refraining from military coercion and interference with the domestic affairs of another state. It is a central tenet of international law, intended to protect a state’s right to sovereignty. But, while the United States poses as the arbiter of global freedom and self-determination, it has long pursued “neoconservative kinetic diplomacy,” undermining…

On the morning of November 10th, my eyes shot open to the sound of an aircraft engine louder than I had ever heard before. Excitedly, I hoped that what I was rudely awoken by was the first flight of the B-21 raider — and I was right. The Northrop Grumman B-21 is a feat of modern engineering, evidence that the U.S.’s military and innovative superiority will endure for years to come. The world’s first sixth-generation military aircraft will be capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear weapons deeper into enemy territory than its predecessors. The long-range strategic stealth bomber is said…

Ukraine has repelled the Russian invasion for nearly two years. With a failed counteroffensive this summer, it is unlikely that it will see a continuation in the immense amount of aid supplied by NATO. If this is the case, Russia needs only to bide its time. Ukraine has miraculously maintained a stalemate; however, this will likely change as Western aid erodes. The war in Ukraine is the worst conflict in Europe since WWII. There have already been more than half a million casualties on the battlefield, and more than 6 million refugees have been displaced from their homes. The conflict…

The ear is centimeters away from the brain. That is the very distance between our world and one of pandemonium. Had former President Trump not moved his head at the exact moment he did, America may be a very different place. The nation, steeped in years of intense polarization, may have reached a fever pitch. Right-wingers would have reacted in ways we cannot predict. If January 6th was the result of a lost election, imagine the result of Trump’s assassination. The afternoon of July 13 was the most significant date in America since 9/11. An armed gunman fired multiple rounds…