When contemplating the challenges of the future — such as overpopulation, climate change or resource depletion — it is easy, or perhaps even natural, to consider these challenges as distant phenomenons,...

When Russia occupied Crimea in the winter of 2014, skeptics argued this step was just the first (or second if you ask the Georgians) in Putin’s campaign to restore Russia to supremacy in Eastern Europe....

The immenseness of Greenland relative to its colonial overlord Denmark would puzzle the uninformed viewer about how this arrangement came to be. However, it is well-known that despite being 50 times the...