Spotlighting Student Journalism Globally
Last week, the Georgian parliament passed a provocative “foreign agent” bill requiring media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive at least 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence,” prompting protests and public...
In the annals of resource management and economic development, few models stand as prominent and influential as the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. These frameworks have shaped Alaska’s economic trajectory,...
The United States of America, one of the world’s oldest democracies, established a constitution over 200 years ago. Nine out of the 13 original colonies ratified the constitution under the promise of liberty; a promise of a...
To push for the release of five American prisoners in Iran, officials in Washington DC have agreed to release five Iranians in their custody as well as six billion dollars’ worth of frozen funds in South...
It has become increasingly controversial to suggest that the practice of woman-hating rears its head with newfound vigor in the digital age. As various social reforms gain unforeseen traction, an overwhelmingly online resistance movement counterbalances the...
On the 17th of June 2015, a young man walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina. Pulling out his handgun, he opened fire, killing nine worshippers, and fled the...
Every university wants to select the best possible cohort of students, and every student wants to get into the best university. The solution to these opposing goals is a black-box system of matchmaking, college admissions. With...
For as long as human thought has been recorded, equality – a principle found in most cultures – has demanded respect for all people; Aristotle, in the Nichomachean Ethics, instructs to “treat like cases as like”....
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” These were the words uttered by Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg address, when he assured that the soldiers who gave their lives for the causes of...
It would be a mistake to try to describe feminism as a single political ideology, given the various branches of feminism that the term encapsulates, from intersectional to Marxist. Clearly evident from such diversified credos, feminism...
