On December 17, 2022, Julia (pseudonym) received an admission offer from Stanford University with full financial aid. “I was overwhelmed with joy,” she told me. “My parents don’t have to pay for my education!” Julia lives in Syria, a ...
Names are more than just labels—they are steeped in histories and tangled in identities. When a name changes, where does its history go? Does it disappear in the shadow of its past, buried in the grave of its former identity? Or does it stay, trail...
A few months ago, Asaad al-Shaibani was a jihadist. Now, he is Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and a fierce champion of the free market. “We need the help of the international community to support us in this new experiment,” al-Shaibani tol...
Jane Ward is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses in feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies. Her most recent book, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, i...
Jane Ward is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses in feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies. Her most recent book, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, i...
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which currently operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Roth served as a...
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which currently operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Roth served as a...
Bill Keller is the editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the American criminal justice system. Keller won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the fall of the Soviet Union and previously served as Executiv...
Bill Keller is the editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the American criminal justice system. Keller won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the fall of the Soviet Union and previously served as Executiv...
Hagai El-Ad is an Israeli human rights activist and currently serves as the director of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. BPR: Have actions against your organization by the Israeli government and...
Hagai El-Ad is an Israeli human rights activist and currently serves as the director of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. BPR: Have actions against your organization by the Israeli government and...
In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the Polish national anthem and the EU anthem on an alternating schedule. These patriotic medleys were a symbolic ...
In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the Polish national anthem and the EU anthem on an alternating schedule. These patriotic medleys were a symbolic ...
South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are in a state of crisis. Communications, transport, mail, water, and electricity delivery are interspersed with crippling labor strikes and breakdowns in aging infrastructure. The state of SOEs in Sout...
South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are in a state of crisis. Communications, transport, mail, water, and electricity delivery are interspersed with crippling labor strikes and breakdowns in aging infrastructure. The state of SOEs in Sout...
In the early 1930s, the rural Tennessee Valley region experienced a crisis extreme by even Depression-era standards: Malaria was running rampant, per capita income was 44 percent of the national average, constant flooding made living in the region di...
In the early 1930s, the rural Tennessee Valley region experienced a crisis extreme by even Depression-era standards: Malaria was running rampant, per capita income was 44 percent of the national average, constant flooding made living in the region di...
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years. But what’s particularly noteworthy is that almost two-thirds of those new arrivals are under the age of ...
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years. But what’s particularly noteworthy is that almost two-thirds of those new arrivals are under the age of ...
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the scene. We like to kill.” Accompanied by the sounds of accordions, guitars, and AK-47s, these are the typical...
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the scene. We like to kill.” Accompanied by the sounds of accordions, guitars, and AK-47s, these are the typical...
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about the war in Syria and the rise of ISIL have captured the international community’s attention while the deadl...
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about the war in Syria and the rise of ISIL have captured the international community’s attention while the deadl...
China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an system in which each citizen’s dang’an, or personal file, served as a womb-to-tomb dossier — comprised of...
China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an system in which each citizen’s dang’an, or personal file, served as a womb-to-tomb dossier — comprised of...
Gun violence takes 30,000 American lives a year, while our nation’s political progress on the issue remains in a troubling state of paralysis. Yet, surprisingly absent from gun control debates is a serious conversation of one important question: Wh...
Gun violence takes 30,000 American lives a year, while our nation’s political progress on the issue remains in a troubling state of paralysis. Yet, surprisingly absent from gun control debates is a serious conversation of one important question: Wh...