The Silent Press and the Facade of Moral Superiority
The recent and unsettling silence of the media surrounding the sudden death of Dr. Hoàng Phương Mai offers a vivid example of what I...
Monk Thích Minh Tuệ and the Boundaries Between Faith and Control
Thích Minh Tuệ, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk born Lê Anh Tú in 1981 in Hà Tĩnh Province, has become a familiar name to the...
Luật Khoa Magazine Shortlisted for the 2025 RSF Press Freedom Award
Luật Khoa Magazine, an independent Vietnamese-language media outlet and sister publication of The Vietnamese Magazine, has been shortlisted for the Impact Prize at the...
Economic Potential: The True Strategic Power of Việt Nam’s Central Highlands
The Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) is a geographic region consistently described in Vietnamese state media as a strategic and critically important location for national...
Geopolitics and Religion in Việt Nam
In 2015, the journal Hérodote published “Géopolitique des religions au Việt Nam. Les voies multipolaires d’une société civile confessionnelle” (“Religious Geopolitics in Việt Nam:...
Fourth Plenum Shock: GDP Slumps, Rare-Earth Gambit Backfires—Did Xi Bet Wrong?
On the very day the CCP’s Fourth Plenum opened, bad news arrived for China’s economy: third-quarter GDP fell below 5%, the lowest this year....
Arizona Sues Speaker Johnson for Blocking Rep. Grijalva’s Swearing-In Amid Shutdown
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S. House of Representatives. The action is aimed at...
North Carolina Senate Approves New US House Seat Map With GOP Advantage
The North Carolina Senate on Oct. 21 passed legislation to implement new district maps for elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, which will...
Trump’s Pick for Special Counsel Office Withdraws From Nomination Hearing
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, attorney Paul Ingrassia, announced that he was withdrawing from a nomination hearing set...