During Cold War counterinsurgency operations and the Laotian Civil War, the United States conducted a “Secret War” in Laos that spanned from 1964-1973. The US organized 580,344 bombing missions over Laos in an effort to isolate Communist North … Continue reading
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Trump Cuts USAID: The Reality for Sudanese Refugees Worsens
The needs of Sudanese refugees displaced by the Sudan civil war are rising while support for them is shrinking dramatically. Since assuming office in 2025, the Trump administration began significantly cutting funding for the United States Agency for International Development … Continue reading
Reclaiming the City- Paris and Barcelona
The Urban Street
Since the beginning of the urban movement, many have argued about the purpose of the street. On the one hand, the realists are aware of the city’s need for efficient transportation of goods and people by automobile, … Continue reading
America First and the Rise of Global Health Gaps
Under the second Trump administration, foreign aid efforts have been slashed, leaving many countries that once relied on assistance from the United States with gaps in funding for various development programs.
An executive order on January 20th, 2025, catalyzed these … Continue reading
The Case of Sudan: What UAE’s Actions Mean for Contemporary Interventionism
On March 5, 2025, the Sudanese government accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before the International Court of Justice (IJC) of complicity in genocide in its relations to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that has allegedly committed … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: The Politics of Movement, How Dance has Historically Accelerated AIDS/HIV Advocacy
Since the start of the global AIDS/HIV epidemic in the 1980’s, dance studio barres, marley floors, and stage lights have felt the loss of countless choreographers and dancers. Influential figures such as Hideyuki Yano, Arnie Zane, Dominique Bagouet, Jorge … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: HIV Prevention at the Nexus of Gendered Fishing Economies in the Lake Victoria Region
For fishing communities situated along Sub-Saharan Africa’s Lake Victoria, HIV is an ever-present challenge. The lake, a cornerstone of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda’s fishing economies, is also the site of a persistent HIV crisis. Currently, the rate of HIV in … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: USAID Post-Mortem, What’s Next for HIV Prevention in Nigeria?
Within one week of US President Donald Trump’s January 2025 announcement of Executive Order 14169 to suspend all USAID funding, 36% of organizations that received funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Initiative (PEPFAR) reported having already had … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: When AIDS Affects the ‘Nobody’
It is no surprise that funding cuts, most notably the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, have weakened countries’ health sectors, making prevention, treatment, and care of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and in its most advanced form, AIDS, exigent. … Continue reading
