As we enjoy the holiday season, it's the perfect time to reflect on how we can all give back. While there's always more work to be done, whether it's a simple donation or hands-on volunteering, there are so many ways we can make this world a little brighter.
During Spring break, second-year International Relations students, Angel Alonso and Borja Santos embark on a two-week journey through the Himalayas to reach Everest base camp.
All the while candy brands change their logos to pastel colors, inclining people who celebrate Easter to purchase their products. It is strange that Gen Z and the current youth grew up with such commodified holiday experiences. Their paternal and maternal generations certainly did not experience it to the same exaggerated degree.
Every culture, every country, and every family has its own particularity for the holidays. Nevertheless, the arrival of winter holidays brings excitement shared between...
The 2025 Belarusian presidential election wasn’t just rigged, it was a performance. A performance in which Lukashenko plays the role of a “democratically elected leader” while the Belarusian people are denied real choice. With no free press, no independent judiciary, and no genuine opposition, Belarus is not a democracy—it is an authoritarian regime propped up by fear and Russian support. But authoritarian rule is not eternal. The Belarusian people have shown before that they are willing to fight for change. The question is: when will their next opportunity come? And when it does, will Lukashenko still be there to crush it, or will history finally catch up with him?
On the afternoon of 19 January, the popular social media platform TikTok services in the United States were restored after a brief ban that ended up lasting all of 14 hours. The ban, which went into effect around 10:30 PM EST on the night of 18 January, was reversed just over half a day later, nearly 24 hours before Trump’s inauguration. While Trump himself went on a crusade against TikTok during his first term, he warmed to the platform’s continuation during his most recent presidential campaign, arguing that a ban of the app would empower one of its arch-rivals, Facebook, which he called at the time an “enemy of the people”, a frequent theme of Trumpian attacks.