Is Tunisia joining Egypt in a return to authoritarianism?
Ten years ago, mass protests pushed Tunisia’s longtime dictator Zein El Abedin Benali out of power. This marked the start of what would become the Arab Spring, ushering in a More
Stolen Thunder: The Growing Divide in the French Far-Right
Though the first round of the French presidential elections doesn’t begin for another six months, polling has begun to trickle in, showing some very strange results. The last election was More
Turning Tables: The Impacts of a Conservative Incline in the US Supreme Court
This past week, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recommenced for a new term, with the justices meeting in person for the first time since the start of More
What Canada’s Inflation Tells us About Monetary Theory and Canada’s Current Course
On September 15th, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s inflation rate hit 4.1% in August 2021. This rate represents the highest year-over-year increase in Canada since 2003. Not only does Canada’s high inflation rate signal More
The “submarine crisis” : A Threat to NATO Cooperation ?
The “submarine crisis” : a threat to NATO cooperation ? This was “a stab in the back” according to the French foreign minister. France’s ambassadors from the United States and More
The Billionaire Space Race: Analyzing the Prospects of a Corporate Outer Space
SpaceX’s September 15th civilian voyage into orbit marked the latest in a series of corporate entities seeking to make their mark on the final frontier. Along with other tech giants More
German Elections : The Illusion of a Second 2015 Migration Crisis
A new spectre is haunting Germany: the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis. Six years after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to welcome more than one million refugees during the European More
Recipe for disaster: how Lebanon was drawn into a vicious circle of crisis?
Nearly a year has passed since the largest non-nuclear explosion the world has known. The explosion of the port of Beirut on August 4 of 2020 left the city in More
Op-Ed: Banning Manning: The US-Canada Intelligence Relationship
Officials in Ottawa are looking to block Chelsea Manning from entering Canada, arguing that the former American intelligence analyst’s leak of classified military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks a decade More
The Federal Government Debt’s Threat on Social Policy
Canada’s budget deficit for the 2020-2021 fiscal year was $354.2 billion, pushing Canada’s debt past the $1 trillion mark – it now sits at $1.1 trillion. Considering this large contribution More