By: Gregory Segal At the beginning of his landmark essay in Sports Illustrated, NBA Center Jason Collins writes, “I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn’t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, [...]
By Urja Mittal and Sarem Gizaw Benjamin Jealous is the current President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is the youngest person to have led the 104-year-old organization. Earlier in his career, Jealous worked as a journalist for a Mississippi newspaper and served extensively in the non-profit sector. As [...]
By Urja Mittal & Anthony Cruz Joe Trippi is a Democratic campaign consultant who has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, Howard Dean, and John Edwards. He has also done campaign consulting for state and Congressional campaigns, including for Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, and for politicians in foreign countries, such [...]
By: Samuel Ruddy John Bul Dau is one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan and the founder of non-profit organizations that benefit those who are displaced by the conflict in Sudan. Born into a tribe in the southern region of the war-torn Sudan in 1974, Dau had to flee attacks on his village at the age of 8 and [...]
by Vanessa Koh The brutal rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old student in India have sparked outrage and protests against endemic gendered violence. However, there is something unsettling about the way western media has relayed the story of this rape and has handled rape culture. Libby Purves of The Times asserts, “Indian women need a cultural earthquake,” as “murderous, [...]
By: Chad Klitzman A CIA operative orchestrates an elaborate plot to rescue six Iranian hostages in Ben Affleck’s “Argo.” America’s 16th president illustrates the power of compromise as he works to pass the thirteenth amendment in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” And, an elite team of Navy SEALs raids a Pakistani compound housing the world’s most wanted man in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero [...]
By: Anthony Cruz It is rare to hear Belarus counted among states accused of human rights violations. American scholars, commentators, and writers tend to focus on China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea as the world’s worst human rights offenders. Since its separation from the Soviet Union in 1990, however, Belarus has maintained one of the world’s worst human rights records. [...]
By: Gregory Segal In December 1991, after over 45 years of bitter rivalry with the United States, the Soviet Union suddenly disappeared from the world map. With the Soviet Union’s abrupt disintegration, Americans quickly believed that the Cold War, and the era it entailed, rapidly ended along with it. As President George H. W. Bush said in a June 1992 [...]
By: Nadia Tareen As I was scrolling through the latest headlines on January 3, one particular news story quickly caught my eye: “Taliban leader Nazir killed in drone strike.” As an avid fan of the series “Homeland,” I marveled at how life was imitating art. The Showtime series revolves around the CIA’s efforts to kill an infamous terrorist with the [...]
By: Edoardo SaravalleActor Gerard Depardieu’s public renunciation of his French citizenship in response to the 75% marginal tax rate instituted in France by President Francois Hollande acted as a warning sign, suggesting that Europe’s high tax model is quickly becoming obsolete. While this individual case was in many ways particular — the Supreme Court eventually annulled the rate and Depardieu himself [...]
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