LGBTQ individuals are facing an unprecedented level of persecution in Egypt. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an independent human rights organization, recently reported that since the military coup…
Donald Trump confounds political observers. For many, he is defined by his missteps and flamboyance. His foreign policy statements contain sufficient imprecision—if not outright contradictions—to allow observers to conclude a…
Is South Korea becoming a multicultural society, a society in which cultural differences and racial diversity are not merely grudgingly tolerated, but, instead, embraced by both the society and the…
Although Jews make up just 2 percent of the United States population, they have exercised a disproportionate influence on the relationship between the United States and Israel. The strength of…
Since Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt a year ago, hardly a week goes by without news of new firings, suspensions, detentions, and arrests. By the end of June 2017,…
The victories of the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland in both the presidential elections of May 2015 and the parliamentary elections of October 2015 have been controversially…
Last May, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in response to the increasing number of worldwide poliomyelitis cases. The timing of…
The Capitol recently commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” during which Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” address. Three…
Although there has been a great deal of research on radicalization of extremists, not as much work has been done on the deradicalization of those who have been recruited into…
For most of the last ten years one of the stars of the Brazilian women’s volleyball team was a stunning, 6’3”middle-blocker named Walewska Oliveira. When Walewska spiked, her normally jovial…
