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Empty Classrooms, Empty Futures: The Real Cost of Our Disrupted Academic Year Our educational institutions are operating on borrowed time. Between unexpected weather emergencies, political rallies, smog holidays, and sudden fuel shortages, it feels like our children’s schools are closed more often than they are open. Over the last few years, we have slowly normalized a reality in which a truncated academic year is just “the way things are,” while ignoring that our children are...

The Triple Crisis: The Human, Economic, and Environmental Cost of the 20-Day Iran War As the 2026 Iran War enters its twentieth day, the international community remains fixated on the immediate theater of military operations involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. Since the outbreak of high-intensity hostilities on February 28, 2026, the headlines have been dominated by the exchange of advanced missile systems and the shifting front lines of what is being called “Operation...