By Molly Lukas On Sunday, April 12th, Hungarian voters delivered victory to Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party. In doing so, they brought an end to Viktor Orbán’s sixteen‑year Fidesz dominance, long seen by many as distorting the shape of Hungarian democracy . With nearly all votes counted, Tisza had secured 137 parliamentary seats to Fidesz’s 56, a two-thirds supermajority that hands Magyar’s party constitutional authority. To understand the weight of this result, some context is n

By Molly Lukas Cross-border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan intensified this week following a series of Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, reportedly targeting militant strongholds but resulting in civilian casualties, including innocent women and children. Pakistani officials said the strikes were a necessary response to increased security threats flowing from Afghan territory, particularly from militant groups that Islamabad accuses Kabul of harboring o

by Ben Raher Given the turbulent era we live in, it is not unsurprising that foreign policy is at the heart of Irish politics. While there has been a certain level of mutual agreement between Irish political parties on several matters, support for the European Union, Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression and Palestinian self-determination, the topic of Irish neutrality is increasingly fraught. The governing parties of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have expressed their sup

By Molly Lukas Nearly two years after Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony, Western governments now say what many long suspected: Russia’s most prominent dissident did not simply collapse behind bars. He was almost certainly killed. Navalny was the country’s leading anti-corruption campaigner in the 2010s and early 2020s. He rose to national prominence by publishing investigations alleging vast corruption among senior Russian officials and state-linked oligarchs, o

By Zoë Pomeroy Two weeks ago, a 28-point Ukraine peace plan created by the US was leaked by an anonymous Ukrainian official. The terms of the proposal include demands long written-off by Ukraine as unacceptable capitulation, and the proposal comes after a snowballing corruption scandal has shaken Zelensky’s position. Last week, phone conversations between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin advisers were also leaked, revealing that this peace plan was in fact greatly sha

By Molly Lukas On November 2nd, 2025, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, former chief legal officer of the Israel Defense Forces, was reported missing before being located and arrested in an investigation into the unauthorized release of a classified video. Two days earlier, she had resigned after acknowledging she approved the leak, which shows Israeli personnel beating and stripping a bound Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military facility. Military-court filings

By Indira Kelly Catherine Connolly and Zohran Mamdani don’t look like natural allies. Connolly, a woman in her sixties from Ireland, has spent decades in cultural advocacy and local politics. Mamdani, a 34‑year‑old man from New York, is a rising progressive voice in American state politics. Yet they share one thing that matters more than biography: both cracked the code of the youth vote. And they did it not with policy papers or debate performances, but with Instagram reels

By Priya Caswell The recent capture of El Fasher on October 27th, by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support forces (RSF) marks a devastating new chapter in Sudan’s ongoing civil war. After an 18 month siege, RSF fighters took the city, located in the western region of Darfur, ending control of one of the army’s largest strongholds. In the process, they committed brutal atrocities, including the massacre of over 450 patients and workers at the Saudi Maternity Hospital, which they

By Josh Craughwell The European Union has pledged nearly €300 million to Pacific island nations in a new investment push under its Global Gateway strategy, a move which further reshapes the region’s development landscape while stressing the growing intersection of aid and influence. September 2025 saw the inaugural EU-Pacific Business Forum in Fiji, where packages targeting key sectors were announced. Of the total fund, around €53 million is set aside for renewable and sustai