The conflict between Israel and Palestine is not a religious war that has existed since antiquity, but a documented, decades-long dispossession of Palestinian land and people that the entire world has watched unfold on our screens in real time, and that the institutions with the power to stop it have chosen, for strategic and financial reasons, to allow to continue.

The right to access information is recognized in international human rights law under Article 19 of the ICCPR, the Aarhus Convention, and regional human rights instruments, but the gap between what these frameworks promise and what people can actually access remains enormous. The individual might be the key to bridging this gap.

A formal rhetorical analysis of how the United States Government strategically deployed and withheld the word "genocide" in two separate case studies and what those instances reveal about language, legal obligation, and international power.

Kashubian is a West Slavic language spoken historically in the Pomerania region of northern Poland, the region Anna left when she immigrated to Minnesota. It is distinct from Polish, with its own grammar, vocabulary, and centuries of independent development.

Americans' geographical distance is real, and so is our moral distance. The isolation and individualism we have created as the backbone of American identity are deeply ingrained in every political decision we make.

Physics is involved in every. single. thing. Which is why it’s the only science I liked in high school. It’s like math with a purpose. What else can it give a purpose to? Politics?