Updates & Insights

From updates in the field and insights about our projects to expert commentary from leading analysts and officials, get the latest news and information from Spirit of America here.

Empowering Young Entrepreneurs in Iraqi Kurdistan

by Spirit of America | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured, Middle East / Central Asia

To support young people in Iraqi Kurdistan and encourage them to improve their communities through entrepreneurship, Spirit of America partnered with Five One Labs to launch The Youth Impact Initiative, a collaborative campaign with the US Consulate Erbil. This project set out to strengthen ...

Field update: News from Ukraine, Iraq, and West Africa

by Spirit of America | Africa, Europe, Featured, Middle East / Central Asia

Spirit of America helped Ukraine scale a vital lifesaving communications network Our team ...

UActive students unveil new spaces to unite Ukrainian communities

by Adriana Teluk | Europe, Featured

In Novokyivka, a remote and impoverished village in Ukraine, a group of high school students ...

Taiwan’s resilience reaches new heights with crisis response drone training

by Brittany Egosque | May 20, 2024 | Asia Pacific

In the heart of Taipei, amidst towering buildings and bustling streets, I heard the air buzz with the hum of drones soaring above. We all know that drones can take amazing aerial images. Taiwanese civil society leaders know that, during a crisis, surveillance drones...

The Aral Sea: Where the Soviets made a desert, Americans and Central Asians are partnering to restore life

by Alex Ebsary | May 17, 2024 | Middle East / Central Asia

To experience the environmental legacy of the Soviet Union, you can travel to Central Asia and take a walk across the windswept desolation where the Aral Sea used to exist before Soviet planners turned it into a desert. Billions of shells cover what is now a dried...

Ukraine updates from Spirit of America

by Spirit of America | Apr 23, 2024 | Europe

On May 2nd, Spirit of America was joined by Fred Kagan, senior fellow and director of the American Enterprise Institute Critical Threats Project and a former professor of military history at the US Military Academy at West Point. His books range from Lessons for a...

Promises made and kept in Armenia

by Zack Bazzi | Apr 9, 2024 | Europe

I first met Irina and her family last October in their new residence on the outskirts of Chambarak, a placid, windswept town a short drive east of Lake Sevan, Armenia. Winter was in the air, or at least the gloomy circumstances that brought me there made it feel that...

Faces of Ukraine: Stories from everyday Ukrainians

by Adriana Teluk | Mar 5, 2024 | Europe

As we enter the third year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Spirit of America is introducing a new video series, "Faces of Ukraine," to amplify the voices of ordinary Ukrainians affected by the war. No matter their age or occupation, these Ukrainians are...

Ukraine two years later: Memories and observations from my time on the ground

by Colleen Denny | Feb 24, 2024 | Europe, Featured

Today is a grim milestone. Today marks two years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. I write this message to you as I ride the train from Poland into Kyiv, on my 16th trip to Ukraine since February 24, 2022. As I head east across the rolling fields...

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