Migration
EUROPE
Italy: Meloni’s Victory With a Age Old Caveat
Citizenship reform in Italy fails: low turnout, migration fears, and demographic crisis deepen EU-wide debate on identity and workforce.
EUROPE
A Poison Chalice: Migration Politics in the Netherlands
The Netherlands keeps breaking its own government over the same issue: what to do with people who weren't born Dutch but call it home.
EUROPE
Universities Pay the Price for Anti-Migration Politics
Politicians celebrate lower student visa numbers while university staff clear out their desks and students wonder if they'll graduate.
EUROPE
Schengen: Freedom of Movement No More?
Schengen under strain: EU faces rising border controls, migration pressures, and terror threats, testing free movement and unity.
WORLD
Colombia ‘Backs Down’ to Trump
Colombia's refusal to accept Colombian nationals, who illegally entered the U.S, backfires as Trump starts his campaign to deport illegal migrants from the States.
Popular
Winter Storm Research Rewrites a Witch Trial Tragedy
As new research published in Smithsonian Magazine this week connects a 1617 Arctic storm to Norway's deadliest witch trials, climate historians reveal how weather shock fed decades of persecution.
Prediction Takes Politics: Prophets and Polymarkets Collide
As 11 Peruvian shamans predicted Nicolás Maduro's fall on 29 December 2025, crypto traders were placing similar bets online—five days before U.S. forces extracted the Venezuelan leader to New York.
Mladenov Takes Over Gaza Board After Regional Veto
Nickolay Mladenov becomes Gaza peace board head after Arab states blocked Tony Blair, raising questions about whose interests guide Washington's selection.
Abu Dhabi Rebuffs British Universities Over Campus Radicalisation
The world’s wealthiest patrons now view Western campuses as hazards, forcing a costly inversion of the traditional hierarchy that once defined global education.
Bury the Lead: MTV ‘Death’ and the Way We Read Now
As MTV continued broadcasting across the United States and most of Europe on 1 January 2026, millions of social media tributes mourned a channel that had never actually shut down.


