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Archive portrait of Rwanda President Paul Kagame speaking at a youth summit in Kigali in 2024

Rwanda Secures Formula 1’s Return to Africa — but Who Will Share the Gains?

A ten-year F1 agreement promises a Grand Prix in Rwanda in the early 2030s, but infrastructure costs, public benefits and rights concerns require scrutiny before the engines start.

Amara Sankara

6 hours ago

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The DPRK: An Unresolved War, Heavy Sanctions and a Repressive State

North Korea’s security system grew out of an unresolved war and intense military pressure, while UN investigations have also documented severe internal repression. Both realities matter.

Eurasia

Gianna Mao

Apr 18, 2025

BRICS leaders at the 2024 summit. Wikimedia Commons.

BRICS Is Turning Multipolarity Into Institutions

BRICS matters less as an ideological bloc than as a bargaining system: development finance, payment networks, trade coordination and pressure for more representation in global institutions.

Analysis

Gianna Mao

Apr 18, 2025

China’s Rise Through a World-Systems Lens: Moving Up the Hierarchy of Production

World-systems theory helps explain China’s transformation from a lower-cost manufacturing base into a state capable of competing over technology, infrastructure and high-value production.

China

Gianna Mao

Apr 16, 2025

Senator Bernie Sanders, official United States Congress portrait, February 2007. U.S. Congress, public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanders_portrait_square.jpg

Bernie Sanders and the Boundary Between Progressive Reform and Anti-Imperialism

Sanders has become one of the Senate’s strongest critics of U.S. arms transfers to Israel, while still operating inside—and largely reforming rather than rejecting—the broader U.S. security system.

USA

Carlitos Marquez

Apr 16, 2025

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China’s Clean-Energy Buildout Is Rewriting the Scale of Climate Policy

By mid-2026, renewable power made up more than 60% of China’s installed capacity and supplied over 40% of generation. The transition’s central contradiction is now clean-energy growth versus continued coal dependence.

China

Gianna Mao

Apr 16, 2025

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The Eastern Front Broke Nazi Germany’s Land War

The Allied victory was collective, but the Eastern Front was the largest and deadliest theater of World War II. Soviet forces stopped the invasion, destroyed German armies and captured Berlin.

History

Gianna Mao

Apr 15, 2025

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Why Tariffs Haven’t Reversed China’s Industrial Rise

Tariffs can redirect trade, but they cannot manufacture industrial capacity. The U.S.–China conflict keeps returning to negotiation because both sides now hold material leverage over critical supply chains.

China

Gianna Mao

Apr 15, 2025

Protest against Ecuador’s government in Cuenca in 2025. Wikimedia Commons.

Ecuador 2025: The Vote Was Valid. The Fight Over State Power Is Separate.

International observers found no evidence that Daniel Noboa’s reelection was stolen. Ecuador’s democratic debate instead turns on emergency powers, security policy and the concentration of state authority.

Ecuador

Carlitos Marquez

Apr 14, 2025

Karl Marx portrait, 1875. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

10 Men Who Changed the World: A Left-Wing Historical Selection

A non-ranked selection of ten men whose ideas, movements and institutions reshaped politics, religion and social life across continents—from Marx and Mao to Muhammad and Confucius.

Listicles

Gianna Mao

Apr 14, 2025

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