Checking your sources in Nagorno-Karabakh
A recent outbreak of fighting has once again brought world attention to bear on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an unresolved territorial dispute involving Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south Caucasus.…
A recent outbreak of fighting has once again brought world attention to bear on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an unresolved territorial dispute involving Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south Caucasus.…
Before leaving office in January, President Obama formally commuted most of Chelsea (neé Bradley) Manning’s 35-year-sentence for leaking classified information and documents to Wikileaks. The commutation was a divisive one,…
Shutterstock/Xtock. All rights reserved.There are signs of previously unknown levels of cooperation and alignment between the United States and the key Sunni states in the region, which could lead to…
To eat or not to eat before a workout? That question has confounded athletes ever since leggings gained acceptance as pants. Sure, you know not to eat a burrito before…
Shutterstock/ patrice6000. All rights reserved.Deluged in data for more than a decade, our reflex has been to articulate our fears and anxieties in the language of privacy. But it may…
Foucault portrait. Flickr/Thierry Ehrmann. Some rights reserved.Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most influential intellectuals of our era. His work on sites of power-knowledge such as asylums, schools, hospitals,…
In 2011, a survey report by the Wikimedia Foundation put numbers behind what many had long suspected: Wikipedia is largely the product of cis white men. The survey found that only 8.5…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey. Getty images/ Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung. All rights reserved. Time has come to finally identify the common thread connecting the various failures of the European Union:…
No one said that Staffan de Mistura’s job is easy. As UN Special Envoy, de Mistura has been tasked with seeking a peaceful resolution to the war in Syria. But…
William Morris printed textile, Strawberry thief, 1883. Wikicommons. Public domain.It is said that the Brexiteers have the identity side of the debate sown up. The British, or at least the…