Getting the Insight Out
Embedded in the Earth of the Southern Congo sits an estimated 3.4 million metric tons of cobalt, nearly half of the world’s known supply. This mineral–essential for electric cars, computer More
Freedom of expression, while legislated to a greater or lesser degree depending on the state in question, remains a foundational right of every liberal democracy in the world. The wide adoption of this humanistic ideal between the 18th and 19th centuries revolutionized a formerly exclusive landscape of social and political expression. The issue then was a generally monolithic and massively repressive social order, to which the codification of free speech provided a necessary counterbalance. The issue today, in our increasingly interconnected world, however, is a new hazard of informational liberty. The dizzying scale of online informational resources and opinion sharing platforms has massively diluted the quality and integrity of our political discourse. The apparent question, then… does free speech always make us more free?
The Trump administration’s foreign policy has been, at best, perplexing. Diplomatic ties appear to be of little concern. Trump and his cabinet repeatedly disparaged long-standing alliances, from NATO to the More
Upon returning to the White House, President Donald Trump leads a crusade to halt U.S. foreign aid. His swift closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inhibits the distribution of crucial life-saving assistance to vulnerable populations and jeopardizes strategic American partnerships in 160 regions worldwide.
While Trump’s last tenure saw the U.S. strengthening its influence abroad, the current presidency prioritizes foreign policies based on transactionality. With rising tariffs on allies and a reversal of the More
Ottawa’s new immigration stream for undocumented construction workers represents a significant policy shift—addressing labor shortages while revealing systemic flaws in skilled worker immigration pathways. The government is now taking steps to reconcile these issues.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to resign as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister and announced that he would not be seeking re-election for his riding in Montreal “none of this is particularly surprising in light of Trudeau’s recent unpopularity.”
In early January this year, 150 Guatemalan and eight Salvadoran military officers landed in Haiti as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) to combat the country’s soaring gang More
Maduro’s fraudulent re-election deepens Venezuela’s democratic crisis, fueling repression, economic collapse, and mass exodus. Can opposition and global pressure break his grip on power?
The ever-expanding tide of populist discourse and behaviour casts a shadow over the political landscape of the 21st century. This unquestionable swell of populist sentiment among national leaders has increasingly converged with another ideological weapon: anti-intellectualism. Defined loosely as an “opposition or hostility to intellectual reasoning,” this ethos has rapidly spread across the west, and has been purposefully cultivated within the American electorate. Specifically, issues such as government response to Covid-19, global climate change, and immigration reform have been brought to the forefront of political debate, only to be engaged with in bad faith for political triumph in the country’s ongoing “culture war.” This article will examine the campaign and general approach of populist leader President Donald J. Trump. This will be done through the lens of this dual-weapon strategy and the use of concepts issued from the works of Hannah Arendt.