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Changemaker Spotlight: Abdul Rahman Rahmani on Humanitarian Leadership, Service, and Resilience
Abdul Rahman Rahmani is a Disaster Response and Recovery Leader from Afghanistan and is an alumnus of the 2024 McCain…
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Changemaker Spotlight: Gor Badalyan on Critical Thinking, Civic Engagement, and Youth Leadership in Armenia
Gor Badalyan currently serves as CEO of Ayn Rand Center Armenia and a civil society activist focused on expanding critical…
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Blog: How AI is Threatening Our Democracy
250 years ago, the nation we now know as the United States of America came to be. Patriots risked their…
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Blog: Ten Years Held Hostage: The Story of Ahmadreza Djalali
Ahmadreza Djalali only intended to leave Sweden for two weeks. Traveling to Tehran for a business conference, he assured his…
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Changemaker Spotlight: Hager Eissa on Advocacy, Resilience, and Leadership in Sudan
Hager Eissa is a Sudanese democracy activist, human rights advocate, political organizer, and co-founder of Voices of Freedom, an initiative…
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Blog: Mothers’ Call for Peace Inspires Hope and Partnership
Credit – Mary Helen Brighton Credit – Mary Helen Brighton Credit – Mary Helen Brighton Credit – Mary Helen Brighton…
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Think No More: Advancing Policy Translation at the Intersection of AI, National Security, and Democratic Governance
On January 14 and 15, the McCain Institute at Arizona State University convened Think No More, a two-day immersive workshop…
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Talk to Your Neighbor
Last year, during my time with Atlantik-Brücke, I asked a leader I admired a question that I stole from, Tim…
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Faith, Power, and the Crisis of Moral Leadership in Armenia
My great-grandfather, Hovhannes Aharonyan, was born in Ynkuznak in the Mush province (now in modern day Turkey, historically part of…
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Blog: Sixteen Were Freed. More Than 1,600 Remain — and They Will Shape Russia’s Future 
Sixteen political prisoners are free — a rare flash of light in an otherwise dark era for Russia. Their release…
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Don’t Get Sucked into Putin’s Ukraine Corruption Propaganda
On November 11, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) revealed one of the largest embezzlement schemes in the country’s post-1991 history. Based on…
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Beyond Xinjiang: How China’s Repression Reaches Across Borders
In May 2025, 23-year-old Yerzhanat Abai fled China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region seeking refuge in neighboring Kazakhstan. Instead, Kazakh authorities…
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