By: Jacqueline Van De Velde The attacks began in the echoes of the Asr, or afternoon, prayers. As the muezzin’s…
By: Cody Knapp Earlier this semester, I listened as two of my professors bemoaned the world’s obsession with Hitler. The…
By: Megan White The United States has Hollywood and pop music. China has cheap toys and trinkets. Russia has alcohol,…
By: Virginia McNally Mahmoud Abbas’ recently submitted proposal for Palestinian statehood at the UN was very diplomatic, very symbolic, and…
By: Tia Ayele In a televised interview alongside Zambian president Rupiah Banda, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Africa…
By: Cody Knapp When protests against the rule of Libya’s long-time dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, began back in February 2011, few…
By: Tucker Green “The notion of a neutral, non-partisan mainstream press was, to me at least, worth holding onto. Now…
By: Emily Kopp Tories will have an easier time making their already-popular arguments about crime: that well-meaning efforts to liberalise…
By: Virginia McNally If you think cell phones have changed daily life and relationships in the West, you are right.…
By: Tia Ayele In an age where tablet sized computers are becoming the norm, it seems unfathomable that a seasonal…
By: Gautam Narula India’s current government, led by the center-left Indian National Congress (INC), has been plagued by corruption scandals.…
By: Jacqueline Van De Velde I’ve always been called something of a feminist. My parents raised me with the knowledge…
By: Sami Jarjour President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government apparently have no construct of even the slightest degree of…
By: Sami Jarjour In his 2006 work Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, Noam Chomsky…