What Lies Ahead for Turkey
The streets of Istanbul rang with celebration as the final results rolled in Sunday night, showing a clear victory for the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey’s highly watched…
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Allyn Gaestel
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Allyn Gaestel is an Editor at Inkstick. An award-winning human rights journalist, Allyn has worked in every region of the world — with especially deep relationships to West Africa and the Caribbean — for outlets including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post and many others. A former United Nations correspondent, Allyn has written on topics ranging from decolonization, gender, war, and global health, to mysticism, urbanity and architecture.
Reporting from Bakhmut
When Anastasiia Shybiko turned 21 in May of 2017, she moved a thousand miles across the country to do something completely different. A journalism student, she was full of youthful…
Global Tech Supply Chains are as Complex as a Circuit Board
A swirling, buzzing, screaming hive — a deadly collective, men without faces or histories absorbed into an impersonal, whirling system of machines capable of delivering death and…
Blindman’s Buff
In the Blindman’s Buff variation of tag, a child designated as “It” is tasked with tapping another child while wearing a blindfold. The sightless child knows the other children, all…
Black Sea Grain Initiative is Renewed But Is Africa Secured?
The day is Wednesday, May 17, 2023, and DSM Capella, the last Ship carrying about 30,000 tons of corn has just departed the port of Chornomorsk in Ukraine. As it sails towards the shores of…
Quo Vadis, Brazil?
Jun. 1, 2023 will mark Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s, or Lula’s, sixth month in office, this time. In January, Lula was sworn in to serve his third term. Put…
The Eurovision Song Contest As A Martial Art
Inspired by the Italian Festival of Sanremo, the Eurovision Song Contest was created in 1956, after World War II, to bring European countries together. Over the years, non-European…
The Army We Don’t See
The way mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army have been waging a significant part of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been well covered in the American media, not…
Russians Watch As Turkey Moves to Presidential Runoff
Artem waits. It has been three months since the 25-year-old lawyer applied for a residency permit in Turkey. With so many Russian applicants being declined, he hopes that his will be…
US Diplomacy Is Weakening
“Adults in a Room” is a series in collaboration with The Stimson Center’s Reimagining US Grand Strategy program. The series stems from the group’s monthly networking events that call…