The Political Power of Co-Opting Women
The 2018 midterm elections highlighted the political power of women: Record numbers of women ran for office, winning more than 100 seats, and Democratic campaigns saw striking levels of activism from women volunteering for candidates who embraced progressive policies, including
The Future: America vs. Eurasia
How will the future play out? Will Europe follow America’s example and sink into nationalist populism that will inevitably tear apart the European Union and open the way to Trump’s divide-and-conquer America First strategy? Will America’s trade war with China
Educating the Incarcerated: An Interview with Edovo
Many people in the US have rightly fought to find ways to reduce the country’s population in prisons and jails, through initiatives like justice reform and revisiting old cases to vindicate the wrongly accused. Not as many resources have been
From Russia with Love: A Misinformation Campaign
Facebook has announced that 126 million of their American users may have encountered 80,000 published pieces of inauthentic, Kremlin-conceived content throughout the last two years (BBC, 2017). In the photo: Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Photo credit: The Atlantic Accounts that can be
The Urban Jungle: Tyson Wheatley
Tyson Wheatley is an American photographer, involved in media, journalism and advertising. As a journalist, he worked with CNN for 11 years while based in Hong Kong. He has also worked in advertising with clients like Ford, Cathay Pacific, Bloomingdales,
The Rise of the Post-Communist
Editor's note: This is a satirical piece included in our coverage on global issues. All opinions are that of the columnist and not of Impakter. The western image of a post-communist is not exactly flattering. A heavy browed, Nike clad, squatter, with a
American Protest Music Rises Again
Protest songs are nothing new. Music has always functioned as a way to express that which could not be said. The function and format of politically-charged music might be constantly changing but its power to connect and communicate has always