Turkey’s Lingering Influence in Syria’s New Army
Months after Turkey’s longtime proxy in northern Syria was declared dissolved and folded into the new Syrian army, its former strongholds remain intact, Kurdish mistrust runs deep and Ankara’s influence is still visible.
Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance
In Minneapolis, whistles warn of ICE agents’ approach. How far do they echo the church bells that guided resistance in occupied France? History does not repeat, but in the details from the ground in Minnesota and the work of historians of wartime Europe, parallels emerge that may be instructive.
South Korea’s ‘Willfully Unmarried’ Movement
South Korea has long had the world’s lowest birth rate — a trend that it is unlikely to reverse. The country’s experience, fueled by increasingly divergent views on marriage and childbirth among women and men, may be a cautionary tale for the United States, where birth rates recently hit an all-time low.
Africa Is Redefining Anglican Power
The appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first woman archbishop of Canterbury has exposed deep divisions within the Anglican Communion and across Africa over women’s leadership and same-sex blessings. But the deeper issue is authority — particularly in Africa, many churches no longer look to England for moral guidance.
How the Sound of Drones Inflicts Psychological Trauma in Ukraine
Russia’s drone strategy has created a nation on permanent, exhausting alert. Every Ukrainian is now an involuntary sound engineer, acutely sensitive to the ambient noise, trying to mentally calculate a threat’s distance from a high-pitched buzz or a faint whistle.