Côte d’Ivoire’s fraught history provides a crucial frame for Ouattara’s rise to power. Under the 33-year rule of President Felix...

In December of last year, two boats chartered by the environmental vigilante group Sea Shepherd, the Bob Barker and the Sam Simon,...

The community members of Villa Soldati, a slum on the southwest end of Buenos Aires’ sprawling outskirts, are stuck between a rock and a...

Red had had enough. Casa Diablo, the vegan Portland strip club where she danced, had crossed one too many lines. The daily, unchecked...

In a recent Gallup survey, respondents ranked different professions according to perceptions of honesty and ethical standards. Nurses hit...

As if it weren’t already hard enough to get out of bed for early classes, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) may just make it that much...

There are many things that can give financial markets jitters, but only a few do so with clockwork regularity. The United States Federal...

Much to the dismay of environmentalists, progressives, and worried citizens, the national political climate remains frozen on climate...

Due to a 1996 piece of legislation, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), stories like Valdez’s are...

Ann Ravel is the chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission. You have previously described the Federal Election Commission...

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, a nonprofit organization that advocates economic localization,...

Photo Credit: Ruth Prieto for Show of Force Nicholas Kristof is an op-ed columnist at The New York Times, where he writes...

Azra Jafari served as the first female mayor in Afghanistan, after being appointed mayor of Nili by President Hamid Karzai in 2008. She...

Davis Guggenheim ‘86 is a documentary filmmaker. He is best known for “An Inconvenient Truth,” “It Might Get Loud,” and “Waiting...

Dr. Peter Gleick is the President and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, which seeks solutions to the world’s water challenges....

Christine Forster is a Sydney city councilor of the center-right Liberal Party of Australia, and the sister of Tony Abbott, the country’s...

Margaret Cho, a comedian and three-time Grammy Award winner, has worked in multiple creative industries, including film,...

Nothing is stable if not the ground beneath our feet. In the complex and unpredictable realm of human social, political, and economic...

From the Temple Mount to the Israelite Tower to the Monastery of the Virgins, the significance of excavations in Jerusalem is...

As far as neighbors go, Venezuela and Colombia are less the type to borrow eggs than to egg each other. While relations have been shaky...