Alexia Anderson

We call it initiative when someone knows the right people. But what happens to everyone who has to earn an introduction before they can earn an interview?

Friendship is being sold back to us as an activity. What happened to the radical luxury of simply having somewhere to go?

For the women whose laughter arrives before the punchline is finished, and makes the whole room forget to be cool.

When a permanent member blocks action at the UN, the work moves down the hall - to a room where all 193 countries vote and no one holds a veto. Here is what it can do, and what it cannot.

The ICC tries individuals, not countries, for four crimes, and only when national courts do not. Here is how the court in The Hague works.

UNCTAD projects 2.6% global growth in 2026, but concentrated momentum, costly finance and geoeconomic rivalry are narrowing policy choices.

Europe's booking rules gave hotels pricing freedom. A new Commission update shows why rankings, discounts and data also matter.

A federal judge temporarily restored access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico. His narrow due-process ruling leaves a larger press-freedom fight unresolved.

On August 29, Icelanders will decide whether to reopen European Union accession negotiations. The ballot is formally about talks, but the campaign has become a debate over the króna, fisheries, living costs and what sovereignty means on Europe's northern edge.

Trump's Ireland visit puts official diplomacy, a major golf tournament, and the president's private brand on the same stage in Doonbeg.

Inflation is still above the Fed’s comfort zone, while the labor market has shown fresh strength. Friday’s CPI release could reshape expectations for the September policy meeting.

EOS-05 is designed to watch the same region from geosynchronous orbit. That makes the mission about disaster response, state capacity and who controls the view from above.

As U.S. Open attention begins, Althea Gibson’s 1950 breakthrough is a reminder that exclusion can survive without an explicitly discriminatory rule.

India’s Independence Day honors liberation while keeping the unfinished work of pluralism and democracy in view.

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the U.N. is focusing on midwives whose knowledge protects mothers, babies and community rights.

Daniel Ortega’s government is moving from controlling elections to eliminating them, revealing how authoritarian systems hollow out democracy before discarding it.

The Democratic Party has a Hakeem Jeffries problem. Not because Jeffries has done anything wrong, but because his position at the center of a fracturing coalition has made him the symbol of a debate that the party can no longer manage with careful language and calls for unity. Jeffries, if Democrats retake the House, would be the first Black speaker in history. Some members of his own party's insurgent wing are running against his allies and chanting at their victory parties that he is next....

In October 2025, the Pentagon introduced new press guidelines. The guidelines required journalists seeking access to sign a 21-page policy restricting their contact with military and civilian staff, warning that reporting on information not officially approved could lead to consequences regardless of how the information was obtained or whether it was classified. Almost the entire mainstream press corps refused. The Associated Press, Reuters, NPR, The New York Times, and every major network...

In March 2026, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Priscilla Villarreal, a citizen journalist in Laredo, Texas, who was arrested in 2017 for asking a police officer a question. That is not a metaphor. She was arrested for asking a question. Villarreal, who operates under the name La Gordiloca, published news stories about a border agent's suicide and a car crash after contacting law enforcement sources for information. Texas prosecutors charged her under a state statute that...

A protester in Kansas City marches with students from Crossroads Preparatory Academy in 2022. On Thursday, City Council repealed a ban on so-called conversion therapy, a scientifically discredited practice that seeks to “convert” LGBTQ+ minors to a heterosexual lifestyle. On March 31, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors violated the First Amendment. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was...

Seven Republican state senators in Indiana voted against Trump's redistricting push. Now $7 million in outside spending is trying to end their careers. This is what political loyalty looks like in 2026.