On January 3rd, General Qasem Soleimani – whom many saw as Iran’s second most powerful man – was taken out by a U.S. airstrike while...

2019 seems to have consolidated an unusual outpouring of widespread anger. In fact, not since the wave of “people power” movements in the...

As a consequence of the collapse of the Somali state in 1991, the country was left without a government. The subsequent disbandment of...

“I’d love to have my own country!” – quite a lot of people have had this thought at some point during their lives. If you’re one of them,...

Paper currency is becoming a thing of the past. Cash, as we know it right now, is becoming something more of a niche slice of the pie...

This is the second half of a two-part article about Catalonia and its independence movement. It is based on the article published by me...

This is the first half of a two-part article about Catalonia and its independence movement. It is based on the article published by me in...

The term “tax avoidance” came into public awareness in 2012 when the British MP’s shunned light on Google’s, Amazon’s and Starbucks tax...

Are you thinking to save money in your bank account? Do banks lend out our deposits? How do they create money? Well, banks don’t have the...

The third economic power of the world is facing aging population problems. The Statistics Bureau of Japan showed in 2018 that elderly...

Last Tuesday, House Democrats announced their impeachment charges against President Donald J. Trump. This happened after an almost...

Recently, Spotify released your yearly statistics with minutes listened and your favorite artists. It probably was not hard to miss as...

The richest generation in the US is about to retire, while the average citizen has barely any savings for retirement. The baby-boomers...

For students there are just good and bad teachers. For the academic staff, however, there is a huge difference between PhD, post-doc and...

In the fall of 2016, a student attending his final year of high school in the state of New York was unsatisfied about his work/life...

Before addressing the topic of a European fiscal union, it is important to remember that the EU is made up out of different countries....

The project of the European Union started in the post-WW2 years with the goal of avoiding future wars between European countries while...

It is very likely that this is not the first article about fake news that you read. The phenomenon has become viral in the past years,...

Ernst-Jan Kuiper, activist, scientist and geologist, and Lennart Tiller, activist and former student at the University College of...

Dear readers, with our latest article we left you just before the initial Brexit deadline of the 29th of March. A lot has happened in the...