Year: 2025
Understanding, not deterrence: A response letter to “End of the Beginning”
This article was written by guest contributor and former checks member (2022-2023) Paul Johann Lindhorst. In the new print edition of the “Checks&Balances” magazine, the author sincerely and seriously contemplates
Read More“Mining Our Way To Carbon Neutrality”: The Cost of the Capitalist Logic
This article was written by guest contributor Adam Sereir. The Green Lie. As the planet burns and temperatures soar, world leaders scramble to draft climate resolutions.However, these policies are less
Read MoreAll Quiet on the Eastern Front: Trump’s redefinition of NATO’s Eastern Flank
Trump – a name not only repeated by the media countless times in recent months but also by world politicians. His return to the White House has triggered a reevaluation
Read MoreBlurred Flavours: How Globalization Has Redefined Cuisine
The word cuisine is to some simply a fancy way to say food, but to others, it is an art form. A cuisine is far more than the dictionary definition
Read MoreThis is what happens when a city becomes a brand
Every week or so, a new TikTok decides that Dubai is the final boss of late-stage capitalism. You know the ones: sped-up footage of endless towers, self-driving police cars, influencers
Read MoreThe Netflix show and the IRC
Netflix’s Transatlantic explores how Varian Fry, Mary Jane Gold, and the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) evacuated thousands of refugees from Marseille during World War II. Fry and Gold are two
Read MoreFrench language: from rise to decline
Over the course of the 17th century, the French language became the primary language in the aristocratic and royal families of Europe. Although French is recognised by all as a
Read MoreCommunist Chic: Fashion Controversy Olympics
As March arrives, so does one of the most highly anticipated periods in the world of vogue – Paris Fashion Week. This event attracts viewers not only with its innovative
Read MoreGoing Bananas: Peeling back Chiquita’s Imperialist Past
I was recently shocked to see the bright, almost friendly blue sticker of the Chiquita brand on the bananas I was buying at my local supermarket. This infamous company essentially
Read MoreOkay, So What’s Up With Greenland?
Greenland, the useless piece of whiteness that looks way bigger on a map than it actually is. The mystic island that keeps countless secrets hidden under the ice, a country
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