The Missing SeatTOPIC
International conflict, sovereignty, human rights, displacement and the people whose lives are often reduced to headlines. These editorials examine power, competing narratives and the human consequences behind global events.
8 editorials
Timor-Leste's disease-elimination milestones deserve attention for the public work behind them. The next accountability question is how that protection will be maintained.
Read Editorial →Germany's federal police commissioner received 421 submissions in one year, including 50 reporting concrete indications of discrimination or racial profiling. The office is real. So are the limits on who can use it.
Read Editorial →After the AfD's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt and Friedrich Merz's sharp response, the question is bigger than one election: what do Germans actually want, and where is the country going?
Read Editorial →Myanmar's humanitarian crisis reminds us that people do not stop suffering when the headlines disappear. More than 16 million people still need humanitarian assistance.
Read Editorial →Indigenous children in Australia remain disproportionately arrested, detained, and imprisoned. A child should never lose their future because the system failed to give them the same chance.
Read Editorial →Familiar products can pass through layers of contractors. Responsibility should not disappear inside them.
Read Editorial →Citizens of three Pacific nations can enlist in the U.S. military, but VA care may require a flight to another country.
Read Editorial →Germany’s culture of remembrance is indispensable. The test is whether its promise of human dignity reaches anti-Black racism in ordinary life.
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