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By: James Hood In today's post-COVID landscape, one would assume unified multi-national responses to the outbreaks of viruses have both the adequate infrastructure and lived experience to result in efficient protocols being in place to halt the spread of deadly diseases. The recent outbreak of Ebola in Africa, however, challenges this presumptive rationale and exposes the dire state of contemporary humanitarian intervention.

By: Adrian Khodavardar For a party that has spent the past two years presenting itself as the credible alternative to Britain's established political order, Reform UK's latest internal dispute is more than an embarrassment. It raises questions about whether the party can maintain a coherent message as it grows. Last week, two of Reform's most senior figures publicly contradicted one another over one of the party's defining policies.

By: Vaanya Kalra India's democracy has long confounded expectations. In 1952, when the newly independent republic conducted its first general election under universal adult franchise, many doubted that a largely poor and illiterate population could sustain democratic governance. Yet over the next seven decades, India repeatedly demonstrated the resilience of its political system.

By: Maryam Sayeed As a British Pakistani doctor, my family member knew who to call, the questions to ask and which referral to push for. Yet, even with that abundance of knowledge, the cancer diagnosis still felt like stepping into the unknown, into freefall. Too much knowledge can be mentally overwhelming but most ethnic minority women in the UK may not have this privilege to begin with.

By: George Marshall The very notion that there is even a debate surrounding whether America should take Greenland is concerning and something that is rightly causing frustration amongst Denmark’s allies around the world. Kier Starmer’s statement that “the future of Greenland is for the Kingdom of Denmark and for Greenland themselves,” is also echoed by other world leaders, not just as party politics rhetoric, but as international law.

By: Onara Perera In Shahrekord, a young woman stands alone before a water cannon, arms at her sides, unflinching. In Mashhad, teenage girls form the majority of demonstrators, their voices rising above tear gas with chants of "Death to the Dictator." In Tehran's Naziabad district, a woman holds a handwritten sign that reads simply: "I am not a rioter." The are scenes from the streets of Iran after a month of extensive and violent protests against the Iranian Regime.

By: Afif Hasan Two years since Emanuel Macron’s surprise snap elections, after months of heavy negotiation, France has finally received a budget for 2026 fiscal year. But the outcome is not without its own set of controversial events.

By: Cianan Sheekey From Virgin’s Richard Branson to the sitting President of the United States, there are reams of famous names in the now-infamous Epstein files. Far too many names; in the time these words are written and edited, a raft of further revelations will likely have emerged from behind the parapet. Being named in the files isn’t itself a crime, of course, but it raises damning Watergate-esque questions about conduct in Western institutions.

By: Maryam Munshi From mandated ICE raids to foreign invasions, it increasingly appears that effective political power in the USA is concentrated within the White House. Trump’s dominance over federal legislatures across both domestic and foreign policy has led many observers to question whether the world’s leading liberal democracy is sliding toward autocracy, and what such a shift means for the country’s political future.

By: Lily Blackburn The Amazon’s status nationally and worldwide has long been contested by political actors and uprising elites, emblematic of worldwide deforestation that contributes to global emissions in the current Anthropogenic era. The presidential transition from Bolsonaro to Lula has situated the Amazon’s protection at the forefront of political agendas, climate action, and economic prosperity.