Basketball’s Governing Body Changes Rules To Allow Players To Wear Hijabs
When the Qatar women’s basketball team took the court for the Asian Games in 2014, officials told them they needed to remove their Islamic head scarf before the game began,…
Make Russia great again? Aleppo and a plea from another world
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens to Turkey's Foreign Minister during talks in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 20, 2016. Pavel Golovkin/Press Association. All rights reserved.A hundred years ago, Ernst Jünger described…
Even Republicans Admit We’re Headed For Universal Health Care
“You have better health care than we do.” When President Trump said those words to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, most in the media interpreted it as another unintentional verbal…
Will Brexit impact on borders and the control of immigration?
Migrants are blocked by French riot police in a makeshift migrants camp near Calais, France, March, 2016. Jerome Delay / Press Association. All rights reserved. “… clearly the point that…
Why the real test for Colombia’s peace begins after the demobilization process
An elderly man places a white flag on his hat during a concert for peace in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. AP Photo/Fernando Vergara. All rights reserved.…
Soccer Star Lionel Messi Used His Lavish Wedding To Help The Less Fortunate
Soccer star Lionel Messi tied the knot with his fianceé Antonella Roccuzzo and used the occassion to help those in his hometown. Prior to his opulent wedding in Argentina for…
Postconflict in Colombia (17). Can Colombia’s FARC turn to politics?
Rebels of FARC, listen to a lecture on the peace process in the southern jungles of Putumayo, Colombia. 17 August 2016. AP Photo/Fernando Vergara. All rights reserved.Whatever happens in the…
What Colleges Really Think About How Teens Spend The Summer
A summer job bagging groceries at the local supermarket or flipping burgers at a fast food joint used to be rite of passage for teenagers. For some students, the cash…
Mission creep or mission rush?
Iraqi security forces fire artillery, Fallujah, 29 May 2016. Anmar Khalil/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.The assault on Fallujah has begun. United States-trained Iraqi army units supported by Shi’a militias and…
A New HBO Show Will Imagine The Confederacy Survived — And People Are Furious
After nine black people were shot to death in June 2015 as they prayed at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, chilling pictures of the killer, white supremacist Dylann Roof, emerged.…