In Remotest Mali, A Hero on International Women’s Day Juliet Sorensen Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Laya Ongoiba speaks truth to power. An advocate against female genital mutilation and child marriage in the town of Douentza, in central Mali, where 89 percent of women and girls have undergone FGM, Laya...
The Pervasive and Elusive, Momentous and Mysterious Law (Part 1 of 3) Bruce K. Adler Politics & Economics, Society & Culture At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed...
Why Do American Cops Kill So Many Compared to European Cops? Paul Hirschfield Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Paul Hirschfield, Rutgers University Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder November 24 in the death of Laquan McDonald. A video released by police shows Van Dyke...
Othering Violence, Othering People Tyler M. Curley Government, Philosophy, Politics, Society & Culture 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,...
How I Survived a “Discussion” with Chinese Public Security Eugene Cooper Government, Society & Culture It was with great sadness and shock that we recently learned of the passing of Professor Eugene Cooper just before publishing this piece. “Coops,” as he was affectionately known in academic circles, was a...
Pop Divas Turn an “Old” Sound into Power and Experience Alexandra Apolloni Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture In 2014 Aretha Franklin released her first album since 1985: Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. Whether critics praised it or panned it, they wanted to talk about age. “At age 72," the...
An Octogenarian Confronts the Ocean Francesca A. Nadalini Arts & Culture, Society & Culture When I was a child, we lived with the Mediterranean sea at our shoulders and not a day went by that we didn’t see it, or take a walk on the wet sand along the edge of the water. In fact, my mother used to...
