Yellow Rose Distillery: World Affairs Simplified

Democracy is Working in Central Europe. That’s the Problem.

The populist corridor through Central Europe just widened.

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The Millennial Rerouting The Sahel

Ibrahim Traore and Burkina Faso

Oct 14 • 

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September 2025

The American Rebellion Called Soft Secession

Growing up in Texas, I learned early that secession was part of our state's DNA—a proud, if historically complicated, legacy that surfaces whenever…

Sep 18 • 

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August 2025

The Wars We Choose to See

Why Sudan's Catastrophe Barely Registers in the West

Aug 25 • 

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Home Field Disadvantage?

How the 2028 Olympics are a Test of Municipal Diplomacy

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

Putin’s Dog Diplomacy

When Four Legs Meet Geopolitics

Jul 11 • 

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The American Lean

What Posture Reveals About Our National Character

Jul 3 • 

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June 2025

Flower Crowns & Foreign Policy

What Sweden's Midsummer celebration in NYC reveals about the quiet power of cultural diplomacy

Jun 24 • 

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The National Guard

A Citizen Force at the Crossroads of State and Nation

Jun 16 • 

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May 2025

The Fifty-State Department

Inside America’s DIY Foreign Policy

May 21 • 

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City in the Red

Five Decades Since NYC's Financial Meltdown

May 2 • 

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April 2025

God’s Diplomat

How Pope Francis Reshaped Global Diplomacy from the Margins

Apr 22 • 

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