The 2023 United States Debt Ceiling Crisis: How Does It End?
In early January 2023, Janet Yellen, the US Secretary of the Treasury, alerted Congress that the US would reach its debt limit of slightly over 31 trillion US dollars by More
Why Georgia is not a Purple State… Yet
Georgia On My Mind On December 6th, 2022, Democrat Raphael Warnock celebrated re-election to his first full six-year term as a United States Senator from the state of Georgia, declaring More
Demonstrations in Iran and China: Dictatorships Under Popular Pressure
In Asia, the end of 2022 was marked by strong popular protests in two of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes: China and Iran. In the first case, the protests, More
British Columbia Just Decriminalized Drugs – Why Hasn’t The Rest of Canada?
Decriminalizing all drugs has remained a contentious topic, first seen in Portugal in 2001. This newfound approach views drug consumption as a public health issue, rather than a personal moral More
Réforme des retraites: le gouvernement a-t-il dépassé les bornes?
Promesse électorale d’Emmanuel Macron en 2016, la réforme des retraites peine à voir le jour. Déjà abandonnée en 2019, sa deuxième version se heurte une nouvelle fois à une très More
Why The Biden Document Scandal Is Unlikely to Change His 2024 Calculations
New Year, New Biden? After a shaky two years in the White House, the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 heralded what seemed to be a new lease on More
Northern Ireland and the Protocol: Adjusting to the New Reality of Brexit
The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland is crossed by some 30 000 people every day for work. Travel across the border is unrestricted, but this partition still has an More
President Abdel Fatah El Sisi’s “ New Egyptian Republic”: A Lived Reality?
The June 30th, 2013 revolution was a turning point in Egyptian history. While some Egyptians describe the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi, in 2013, by Military General More
Developing Countries and Climate Change – Suffering the Consequences without the Benefits
An external existential threat of the nature of climate change, without a concrete aggressor nor a traditional adversarial strategy, has yet to be faced by our modern political world order. More
Behind Libya’s Never-Ending Cycle of Crisis
Torn by a civil war that has been ongoing since a NATO intervention in 2011 toppled the long-ruling dictator Muammar-AlQaddhafi, Libya seems to be deeply divided, rendering the county a More