Michael Dekhtyar (michael-dekhtyar)

Opinions

One Belt, One Road, One Winner

Michael Dekhtyar

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is bankrupting poor countries and destabilizing the world economy.

Issue 8, Volume 109

Humor

Post-Break Test Rush Triggers Student Protests

Michael Dekhtyar

Issue 8, Volume 109

Opinions

U.S. Discovers Oil on North Sentinel Island

Michael Dekhtyar

Issue 7, Volume 109

Opinions

Democracy’s Retreat in Eastern Europe

Michael Dekhtyar

Authoritarians are making Eastern Europe their political playground. The EU can do much to stop them.

Issue 7, Volume 109

Opinions

What’s Next for Brazil?

Michael Dekhtyar

Jair Bolsonaro faces overwhelming issues as Brazil’s next president. If he manages to resist his authoritarian leanings and old-line personal views, he has a good chance of fixing them.

Issue 5, Volume 109

Humor

How PTCs Shape History

Abdulla Elkhadrawy, Michael Dekhtyar

Issue 5, Volume 109

Humor

Humor Department Overthrows Editors-in-Chief, Installs Military Junta

Michael Dekhtyar

Issue 4, Volume 109

Opinions

Moving Down and Shaking Up

Michael Dekhtyar

In its current state, Britain’s NHS is unsustainable and doomed to implode.

Issue 3, Volume 109

Opinions

Oil, Oil Everywhere

Michael Dekhtyar

The U.S.’s friendliness with Saudi Arabia insulates its regime from answering for its crimes in the war against Yemen.

Issue 2, Volume 109

Humor

San Francisco Mayor Announces New Program To Safely Dispose of Dead Bodies; Says It Will Help Fight Climate Change and Pollution

Michael Dekhtyar

Issue 2, Volume 109

Opinions

Not Yet Known—Or Is It?

Michael Dekhtyar

Numerous studies by policy research institutions—public and private—have consistently shown that widespread private gun ownership overwhelmingly deters crime, rather than encourages it.

Issue 16, Volume 108

Humor

Gee Whiz Diner Bans Stuyvesant Students

Michael Dekhtyar

Issue 16, Volume 108