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Human Rights Watch concluded that the situation could be considered a violation of basic human rights since the United Nations Special Rapporteur on health and torture had specified that “the de facto denial of access to pain relief, if it causes severe pain and suffering, constitutes cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

While Beijing thinks it can weather Trump’s sweeping tariffs on a bilateral basis, it also believes the U.S. broadside against its own trading partners has created a generational strategic opportunity to displace American hegemony. Close to home, this shift could significantly reshape the geopolitical landscape of East Asia.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion has been at the forefront of Donald Trump’s socio-political agenda. On his first day back in office, Trump instituted an executive order eliminating DEI programs from the federal government and the “shameful discrimination” they invoke.

The future of work won’t be a utopia, but it won’t look like the past either. Gen Z may not have destroyed hustle culture entirely, but they’ve made one thing clear: The era of glorified burnout is over.

The less certain a military command is about its resource base, the more precarious bold military maneuvers become. It is through this fog of uncertainty that any pause in assistance shapes the course of the war in Ukraine and the bargaining leverage of all parties at the negotiating table.

Polling stations closed at 6 pm on Sunday in Germany's federal election, with Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, looking on course to win, ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

When we think of Valentine’s Day, chubby Cupids, hearts and roses generally come to mind, not industrial processes like mass production and the division of labor. Yet, the latter were essential to the holiday’s history.

Perhaps these federal workers’ dour interactions with me reflected their personal apprehension on how Donald Trump and his minions would try to eliminate their jobs once he came into office on the following January 20.