Reading up on the news but wondering why it’s important? Interested in international events and foreign affairs but feel like everything’s written for Nobel prize winners? Tired of all the social media noise and just want to know what’s going on? So are we.

Binocular covers anything happening abroad that makes us curious: foreign affairs, trade, diplomacy, and domestic politics abroad. But often other reports don’t tell you why you should care, why the event is important in the first place. We want to explore why you should know, what it means for us and the world, and how different people might see the same problem.

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