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  • Health Impacts of Withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention: A Global Threat to Lives and Livelihoods

    Health Impacts of Withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention: A Global Threat to Lives and Livelihoods

    By AJ Rehman | Rising Expert on Global Health | December 16, 2025 | Photo Credit: Flickr This past summer has set a dangerous precedent for international law and its conventions as 6 European Countries [Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and Poland] have formally withdrawn from the Ottawa Convention, formally known as the…

  • Rivers, Reason, and Rage: The Grand Political Experiment on the Rio de la Plata

    Rivers, Reason, and Rage: The Grand Political Experiment on the Rio de la Plata

    By Henry Trop | Rising Expert on Climate Change | December 13, 2025 | Photo Credit: Wiki Commons The Rio de la Plata is vast – but not big enough. The political persuasions of the two ruling parties across the water, Argentina’s Buenos Aires and Uruguay’s Montevideo, have incompatible views on how to…

  • Has Milei Learned Nothing from Chile?

    Has Milei Learned Nothing from Chile?

    By Arlen Agiliga | Rising Expert on Economics | November 25, 2025 | Photo Credit: Flickr Associated with deregulation, austerity, and the sanctity of the private sector, the modern interpretation of ‘neoliberalism’ emerged from drastic changes to the Chilean economy implemented by the Pinochet regime in the 1970s. From the outset of its…

  • Stochastic Terrorism is Now a MAGA Strategy

    Stochastic Terrorism is Now a MAGA Strategy

    By L.M. Schmidt | Rising Expert on Gender | November 21, 2025 | Photo Credit: Flickr In June 2025, Democratic Minnesota state legislators, Melissa and Mark Hortman, were shot dead, along with their dog. Two other Democratic officials were critically wounded. The gunman carried a kill list of over 70 progressive figures, and…

  • Sudan’s Forgotten War and Forgotten Women: An Attack on Healthcare Access and Human Rights

    Sudan’s Forgotten War and Forgotten Women: An Attack on Healthcare Access and Human Rights

    By Nikia Crollard | Rising Expert on Public Health | November 12, 2025 | Photo Credit: AA.Com Nearly three years into Sudan’s devastating civil war, the need for humanitarian action is an understatement: over 150,000 people have died, and one-third of Sudan’s population are displaced inside and outside of the country. The United…

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