The Sound of Normal Life
Stopping
WAR AND SECURITY · UKRAINE · EUROPE
May 22, 2025
Residents of Kyiv and other
Ukrainian cities endure
relentless drone attacks…
The Story
Unsung Defiance
POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS
May 5, 2025
The narrative recounts
experiences of individuals
resisting state repression
across Myanmar, Syria, Iran,
Russia, and the United.
The Quiet Fire in Sükhbaatar
Square
POLITICAL POWER · VOTING RIGHTS · ASIA
May 3, 2025
On December 10, 1989, Hashbat
Hulan led Mongolia’s first
public protest in decades,
sparking a nonviolent
democratic.
They had rehearsed the chants.
Hulan told them to be louder
than the rock bands.
It was December 10, 1989—
International Human Rights Day
—and Mongolia’s first public
protest in over half a century…
The Classroom Clampdown
WHITE HOUSE · LAW AND COURTS
April 22, 2025
The Trump administration’s 2025
directives impose strict
controls on education,
targeting diversity programs…
The Last Bridge
IMMIGRATION · POLITICAL POWER · EUROPE
April 21, 2025
Pope Francis framed global
migration as a spiritual and
moral crisis, emphasizing
compassion for refugees as
central.
The Border Was Just a
Line—Until It Wasn’t
COMMUNITY · VERMONT · QUEBEC
April 15, 2025
The Haskell Free Library and
Opera House, a century-old
building bisected by the…
Getting Greenland
WHITE HOUSE · WAR AND SECURITY
April 11, 2025
Donald Trump’s proposal to
purchase Greenland reflects
strategic interests in the
Arctic’s military significance…
Banned in Plain Sight
POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS
April 10, 2025
How America is narrowing what
you can read, watch, and teach.
By the time they pulled the…
Elbows Up
POLITICAL POWER · CANADA · UNITED STATES
April 10, 2025
In response to escalating
tensions with the United
States, Canadians have embraced
the phrase “Elbows Up,”
inspired.