Politics

Russia has done certain things right in the fight against ISIS. Maybe it's time America learned from their tactics.

Yet again, dystopian film is all the rage. This is certainly not the only time in which dystopias have held sway. But never before has the genre been so lucrative. The Maze Runner, The Divergent Series, and...

It seems like almost every day there is an outbreak of violence somewhere in the world—whether it’s a mass shooting in the U.S., a simmering intifada boiling into war between Israelis and Palestinians,...

This list provides some suggestions for readers interested in getting into the field of International Relations (IR). Our list was drawn up with three criteria in mind: readability, non-paradigmatic texts, and...

Is Direct Democracy Janus-faced?

With Mandarin’s newfound popularity among non-Chinese, the long-standing political tensions between China and Taiwan has a new battleground—with language students caught in the crossfire.

What defines the boundary between humans and animals? The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness states that “comparative research on this topic is naturally hampered by the inability of non-human animals,...