1. A Moment of Reckoning in the Caribbean When Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, stood before members of the Jamaican diaspora at the National Windrush Museum in the United Kingdom, she wasn’t just delivering a routine update. She was addressing a wound that has festered for centuries, and doing so in the very heart of the former empire. The air in that room carried the weight of memory—the memory of ancestors who had been stolen, shackled, and sold, their labor building the wealth of a nation while their own humanity was denied. Grange’s purpose was…

Imagine opening your phone one morning in Bulgaria, a few months before your country’s next parliamentary election, and seeing a flood of stories that seem designed to make you distrust everything and everyone. One post claims your government is handing military secrets to foreigners. Another says the electricity grid is about to fail because of corruption. A third suggests the only honest candidate is someone you had never heard of until yesterday. None of it may be true, but it all feels real, and it all feeds on the anxiety people already feel after years of political chaos. According to…