Edition 4: Going Into Uncharted Waters 

The theme of Platform's October issue is uncharted waters. Throughout this September, the news cycle has been filled with many stories of societies heading into unfamiliar places. For the first time in about a decade and a half, the German people will have a chancellor not named Angela Merkel. Facebook's costly offline blunder has given a stronger spotlight to the reliance we all have on its applications and the data that is a result of that, and the growing power it bestows. As the potential for an Israeli strike on Iran grows, the two nations draw closer to large scale violence/war for the first time in their histories and Democrats in Congress, led by the Squad, had attempted to put the issue of American funding to Israel into the public debate. Citizens around the globe will likely need to adapt and provide new solutions to these seismic changes underway.