In 2009, a bill was introduced in the Ugandan parliament that called for the arrest of LGTBQ Ugandans and specifically targeted...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the United Nations in 1979. It has...

Increased citizen participation in government processes is a good thing – most of the time. Citizens interacting with the executive...

I’d wager that a considerable number of the general population would describe most modern art as esoteric, derivative, annoying,...

Today is February 27 and although it may not be apparent, we are at a transition of immense significance. As we move from Black History...

The Economist recently ran a story with the provocative subtitle “How sexual equality increases the gap between rich and poor...

I spent a good part of the weekend watching (most) of season two of “House of Cards.” Without having seen the ending, I can say that...

The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics was, without a doubt, beautiful, and one would hope so, considering the whopping $50...

If there is one video you watch today, please let it be The Oppressed Majority. Time and time again I hear complaints from female peers...

“Homosexuality is incompatible with scripture,” asserted Stanley Ntagali, the archbishop of Uganda, in response to accusations by British...

Like many Americans, I too was captivated by recent headlines naming the Super Bowl as the biggest human trafficking event on the planet....

In January 2013 the Pentagon officially reversed its ban on women in combat roles. This quickly prompted a discussion on including...

On October 1, Muslims in the coastal village of Thabyuchaing in the northwest of Burma fled into the surrounding forests as their homes...

By Dylan Platt When white smoke plumed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel last March, it was the unwitting signal of an international...

In 1890, the United States Census Bureau announced the end of the Western frontier. Yet the frontier spirit has surfaced intermittently...

There. You clicked it. The rest of this column doesn’t even matter. But while I have you here, I might as well explain myself. No, I...

Political art is far from a novel phenomenon, but nowadays we’re exposed to artist-activists from around the world, creating works of...

Imagine you’ve come down with appendicitis. Scared and in pain, you go to an “Appendix Crisis Center,” where they tell you that if you...

Protest songs have always been an important mode of political discourse. Easily produced and disseminated, good protest songs and the...

Sexual education in America is far from perfect. It varies widely from state to state (and even school to school), but at worst it can...