Account freezes, social and financial erasure, and political blacklisting, without trial or conviction. This is no longer the domain of distant authoritarian states but a growing feature of the European Union’s sanctions regime. Behind the rhetoric of liberal democracy, the EU has constructed a mechanism that can be turned inward, […]
21st Century WireNEW YEAR SPECIAL Looking forward into the New Year, here are some predictions and trends to keep an eye out for. This past year saw plenty of absolutely unprecedented world events. Things are definitely coming to the head. Everyone can sense it. The most notable area to look at this year […]
Our weekly documentary film, curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. What if the very agency sworn to protect America’s most vulnerable children became the largest legally protected kidnapping network in the country? For decades, Child Protective Services was sold to the public as a shield for abused and neglected […]
What began as a brief political scandal around the possible appointment of Yair Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister’s son, quickly opened a window onto a much larger and largely hidden arena: Israel’s national Zionist institutions. The proposed role at the World Zionist Organisation was no ceremonial post; it came with a minister-level salary, generous […]
On a December evening in 2025, a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach turned into a scene of horror. Fifteen people were killed, dozens injured, and a community’s sense of safety was shattered. In the hours that followed, the story seemed clear: a terrorist attack, antisemitic in motive, connected to […]
For more than a decade, Israeli officials have warned of an alleged international campaign to “delegitimise” the Jewish state. The accusation has been repeated so often that it has hardened into dogma. A new investigation dubbed “Israel Files” reveals what this rhetoric was designed to obscure: not a besieged democracy […]
The aftermath of the Honduran presidential election has been marked with unease, anxious crowds, contested tallies, and a sense that unseen hands have been quietly rearranging the country’s political destiny. Among those shadows moves Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, a figure whose career has lurched from spectacle to scandal […]
The Islander writes… As it became known following five hours of tense negotiations with the American delegation inside the Kremlin’s stone walls, one issue, unsurprisingly remained a gaping wound, the territorial question. And Washington, true to form, came with its recycled 28 point plan. Dusting off pages from the 28-point “Trump […]
A recent study co-led by Irena Chen at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) warns that the true human cost of the war in Gaza may be vastly undercounted. Using a Bayesian model that accounts for unreported deaths, missing demographic data, and measurement uncertainty, the researchers estimate that […]
The long-running legal saga surrounding the Nord Stream explosions took a dramatic step forward on Wednesday. Italy’s Corte di Cassazione ( Court of Cassation ) has rejected the final appeal lodged on behalf of Serhii Kuznetsov, the 49-year-old former Ukrainian military officer wanted in Germany for his alleged role in […]