Skyler Bohnert

The 2022 Quebec general election saw the CAQ affirm its sweeping success from 2018, with François Legault doubling down on his controversial policies and broad, populist platform. Surging from seemingly nowhere, the CAQ has established…
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It is precisely this difference in mindset that made Portugal’s drug decriminalization work. Victims caught in the crisis were not viewed as dangerous criminals that threatened to destroy the middle class. It was understood that they were…
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In 2027, the world will see the first newly independent country since South Sudan in 2011. Bougainville, an autonomous province in Papua New Guinea (PNG), voted almost unanimously for independence in a 2019 referendum, and their government…
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The average human is nowhere near able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach suborbit — something Musk acknowledged when he briefly predicted a loan system that sounds a little too much like indentured servitude — and any…
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Why does the US care so much about three of the world’s smallest, most remote nations? The answer is that it doesn’t — at least, not outside the bubble of preserving US imperialism against a rising Chinese threat. 
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Democracy survives when its voters believe and participate in the system. In Nigeria, the history of violence, lack of change, and inability to ensure fair elections has pressured voters to believe that democracy is broken — and they’re…
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