ISIL and governance
Excerpted from ‘ISIL, JAN, and the war economy in Syria,’ by Rim Turkmani, (LSE, 2015), which is based on original empirical research drawing on interviews with a range of respondents…
Librarians Have A Simple Message For The President Of The United States
Shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, assistant library director Rebecca McCorkindale created a sign to let immigrants and longtime residents alike…
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.…
Chelsea Manning’s Loved Ones Are Crowdsourcing Funds To Help Her After She’s Released From Prison
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,…
Outside the box: a Sunni endgame in Syria, Iraq?
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…
New Study Reveals What You Should (Or Shouldn't) Eat Before Working Out
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…
Conscience in the datasphere
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…
Michel Foucault as an activist intellectual
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,…
How Activists Are Diversifying Wikipedia One Edit At A Time
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…
From London to Athens, Europe is an empty shell
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:…