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December 22, 2023

Technology and Innovation
Cyber Week in Review: December 22, 2023

Major AI training database contains CSAM; EU opens investigation into X/Twitter; New NSA director confirmed; AlphV ransomware gang compromised by FBI and DOJ; hacktivists target Iranian gas stations…

People wait at a gas station during gas station disruption in Tehran, Iran on December 18, 2023

November 16, 2023

United States
Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Hate are Surging. Here's How to Curb the Worst American Tradition.

As violence escalates in Israel’s struggle with Hamas, the potential for hate-based violence in the United States grows, too. American leaders need to step in to defuse tensions.

Israel-Palestine

October 31, 2023

United States
Meet Dean Phillips, Democratic Presidential Candidate

The U.S. congressman from Minnesota is a candidate for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.

Phillips

October 11, 2023

Religion
What I Would Say to the Synod

The Roman Catholic Church's Synod can reassert Church leadership on human rights--or fail to do so.

October 9, 2023

Thailand
Thailand’s Spiraling Gun Violence and the Need for Solutions

Thailand is awash in guns due to lax legal enforcement, causing it to have one of the highest rates of gun violence in Southeast Asia.

Red emergency lights flash outside a mall as response workers cordon off the area with orange cones following a mass shooting.

September 27, 2023

Diplomacy and International Institutions
A Dispiriting UNGA

Leaders devalue democracy under the guise of standing up to the West.

Guinea's President Mamadi Doumbouya addresses the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, on September 21, 2023.

September 18, 2023

Democracy
A Democratic Inquest

Pervasive despondency about democracy in Africa urges the imperative to strengthen democratic institutions and practices.  

A large group of protesters in Nigeria raise their hands in a fist formation on Democracy Day.

July 20, 2023

Peru
In Peru, Opposition to Democratic Backsliding Is Growing. Without Leaders, it Might Not Get Far.

Peru's President Dina Boluarte and Congress have eroded democratic norms in the country, spurring protests. However, unless an opposition leader emerges, this new wave of protests will fall short. 

Anti-government demonstrators take part in a protest against President Dina Boluarte in Lima, Peru.