On Tuesday, one of the worst chemical bombings since the Syrian war began occurred in a northern rebel-held town, killing at least 72 people, including 10 children, according to reports. Russian officials…
Editor’s note: Amanda Gillespie is Manager of Extraordinary Ability Cases at Samuel Christensen Law Firm. She’s been hunting down wild H-1Bs for people of extraordinary ability since 2003. It sounds simple:…
Slums in Rio de Janeiro. Flickr. Some rights reserved.Given that the cycle of Latin American progressive politics (progresisimo) appears to be coming to an end, it seems the right time…
Click:milling Palazzo Giusso (Napoli). Wikicommons/Sistermone. Some rights reserved.Over the last few months, a campaign inviting Italian academics to abstain from participating in the latest nationwide research assessment exercise (VQR 2011-2014)…
The Iranian National Chess Team has removed a pair of sibling chess masters for not adhering to the country’s religious laws. The duo, 18-year-old Dorsa Derakhshani and her 15-year-old brother Borna…
Protests in Brazil. Flikr, Samilla Luz, some rights reserved “Brazil: land of the future” is the title of a 1941 classic book by Stefan Zweig. Ithe title became a popular…
HDP's massive election rally in Istanbul, May 30, 2015. Demotix/ Sahan Nuholglu. All rights reserved.Demotix/ Sahan Nuholglu. All rights reserved.Two historic general elections were held in Turkey over the course…
How much would you pay to keep the phrase “on fleek” in your lexicon? While many would surely donate money to erase its existence altogether, the personality behind the phrase…
Members of the upstate Drone Action Coalition outside the Hancock Air Force base, New York. Ed Kinane is on the far left. Credit: http://www.upstatedroneaction.org/. All rights reserved. In one way…
Gare de Lyon. Flickr/Jon Siegel. Some rights reserved.How do counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation methods impact on ethnic and religious accommodation in our liberal democratic societies? Much of the literature draws on…
On Sunday, Trump wrote a slew of vague tweets about the plan for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, further confounding our already perplexed nation. From what we can tell, Trump is…
Humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees at Idomeni, Greece, August, 2015. Demotix/Giorgios Cristakis. All rights reserved. When ISIS arrived in Mosul, Fatima knew that her son, a policeman, was in mortal…