MIR Meets: Joanne Liu
Host Sydney Murray sits down with Dre. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières and founder of PERL, the new pandemic evaluation and readiness lab at McGill.
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How French “Manifestations” Differ From American Protest
Protesting is an integral part of French political culture, whereas for many Americans, it often feels optional or ineffective.
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The Real Inheritance: The Shadow Economy Fuelling North Korea’s Dynasty
Kim Jong Un’s daughter, Kim Ju Ae, may one day sit atop North Korea’s regime, but her real inheritance is a balancing act between a criminal empire and the black markets its people need to survive.
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Opinion | Cowering Tiger, Sunken Dena: The American Strike and Indian Frailty
India's muted response to the sinking of IRIS Dena is not a one-off instance of deference, but a long-overlooked deterioration in the country's moral firmness.
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Opinion | Iran Beyond External Narratives
Behind the headlines and the discourse lies a country of 90 million people who currently do not have access to the most basic means of expressing their suffering to the rest of the world.
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Disease Diplomacy: The Venetian Legacy Defining Modern Quarantine
Innovations of the Venetian Republic paved the way for modern health practices, shaping how the world understands public health and the administrative role of the state.
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How Apathy is Choking a Country
India accounts for nearly 70 per cent of all air pollution-related deaths, yet government authorities have done little to implement policies to curb the impacts of the hazardous living conditions.
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How Instagram Is Brewing Cities, One Café at a Time
Seoul’s Instagram-driven café culture shows how social media can turn urban spaces into sites of visual consumption, accelerating commercialization while weakening local belonging.
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Integration or Defeat? What the SDF-Damascus Ceasefire Means for the Future of Syria’s Kurds
As the integration process moves forward for the SDF, Syria’s Kurdish question now shifts from territorial control to constitutional inclusion and true political representation within a newly centralized state.
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The Forging of a New World Order
Why the old world order is gone, and why it's never coming back.
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