It is impossible to be bored on Año Viejo (New Year’s Eve) in Ecuador’s capital city. The country blends rich traditions typical of many Latin American countries — like eating las doce uvas de la suerte, twelve grapes each bestowed with a wish...
The 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Trials, carried out by the Allied powers during postwar occupation, marked one of the first attempts to reckon with the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army during the Second World War. 28 men, many of whom were archite...
Under the cover of night, small boats depart from the Libyan coastline, headed toward sanctuary in Italy. Packed onto rickety vessels and often bought and traded by armed gangs, thousands of migrants and refugees face grueling challenges on the...
Chilean Armed Forces bomb the Presidential Palace during the 1973 coup. Wikipedia Commons. Creative Commons. The events of September 11th hold a massive and merited weight in the world’s collective consciousness. It was a date in which great viol...
Chilean Armed Forces bomb the Presidential Palace during the 1973 coup. Wikipedia Commons. Creative Commons. The events of September 11th hold a massive and merited weight in the world’s collective consciousness. It was a date in which great viol...
Over the past two years, civil war has ravaged Syria. There has been over 100,000 deaths reported by the UN and extensive economic devastation that will leave Syria in shambles for decades to come. It is difficult to foresee any calm emerging from ...
Over the past two years, civil war has ravaged Syria. There has been over 100,000 deaths reported by the UN and extensive economic devastation that will leave Syria in shambles for decades to come. It is difficult to foresee any calm emerging from ...
Bollywood is known for its supremely choreographed song and dance routines, sickeningly sappy romances, and improbable plot twists. Recently, however, many directors and actors have added a new element: an address to social problems plaguing Indian s...
Bollywood is known for its supremely choreographed song and dance routines, sickeningly sappy romances, and improbable plot twists. Recently, however, many directors and actors have added a new element: an address to social problems plaguing Indian s...
On the night of July 31st, the lower house of Uruguay’s legislature passed a bill that would legalize the production, distribution and sale of cannabis. It is expected to pass the Uruguayan senate in a few months and be approved by the country’s ...
On the night of July 31st, the lower house of Uruguay’s legislature passed a bill that would legalize the production, distribution and sale of cannabis. It is expected to pass the Uruguayan senate in a few months and be approved by the country’s ...
In a well-known stream of consciousness on the series premiere of The Newsroom, fictitious news anchor Will McAvoy expounds on everything he thinks is wrong with modern America, including its younger citizens. Being a charter member of what McAvoy re...
In a well-known stream of consciousness on the series premiere of The Newsroom, fictitious news anchor Will McAvoy expounds on everything he thinks is wrong with modern America, including its younger citizens. Being a charter member of what McAvoy re...
Recent events have not painted a pretty picture of Russian democracy. Rights abuses have become prevalent to the point of cliché, and high profile abuses such as the conviction of feminist punk band Pussy Riot for an anti-Putin demonstration in a ch...
Recent events have not painted a pretty picture of Russian democracy. Rights abuses have become prevalent to the point of cliché, and high profile abuses such as the conviction of feminist punk band Pussy Riot for an anti-Putin demonstration in a ch...
The recent escalation in unjust imprisonments and brutally conservative policy has charged up opponents of the Kremlin. Alexei Navalny, a popular blogger and anti-corruption lawyer, has emerged as a prominent opposition figure to Vladimir Putin. Nava...
The recent escalation in unjust imprisonments and brutally conservative policy has charged up opponents of the Kremlin. Alexei Navalny, a popular blogger and anti-corruption lawyer, has emerged as a prominent opposition figure to Vladimir Putin. Nava...
“Libertarian paradise” were words my hedge fund mentor used to describe the city in which we were working on my first day. These are hardly new words to describe Hong Kong, the liberally economic jewel in the cap of the Far East, but they are cri...
“Libertarian paradise” were words my hedge fund mentor used to describe the city in which we were working on my first day. These are hardly new words to describe Hong Kong, the liberally economic jewel in the cap of the Far East, but they are cri...
#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an unacknowledged celebrity. Over the course of the last few months, demonstrations across a hundred cities in Brazil too...
#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an unacknowledged celebrity. Over the course of the last few months, demonstrations across a hundred cities in Brazil too...
Natalie Morin, a Canadian woman who settled down in Saudi Arabia in 2009, is trapped inside her own home. Forbidden to visit her family or leave her abusive husband, her future is set and restricted by Saudi law. Her mother, Johanne Durocher, worked ...
Natalie Morin, a Canadian woman who settled down in Saudi Arabia in 2009, is trapped inside her own home. Forbidden to visit her family or leave her abusive husband, her future is set and restricted by Saudi law. Her mother, Johanne Durocher, worked ...
A little over a year ago, a viral video took the Internet by storm. In the week following the release of “Kony 2012,” the video had over a hundred million views, had reached more than half of all eighteen to twenty-nine year olds, and wa...
A little over a year ago, a viral video took the Internet by storm. In the week following the release of “Kony 2012,” the video had over a hundred million views, had reached more than half of all eighteen to twenty-nine year olds, and wa...
Japan’s nationalism, much like their baseball, exists as a constant reminder of the nation’s rapid passage from a feudal society to a Westernized, imperial power. The process that began in the middle of the 19th century — the end of...
Japan’s nationalism, much like their baseball, exists as a constant reminder of the nation’s rapid passage from a feudal society to a Westernized, imperial power. The process that began in the middle of the 19th century — the end of...