The Internet, a virtual space existing somewhere beyond the physical world, has become an engine for actual, tangible change. From Cairo...

On September 11th 2013, while Washington was engrossed by the prospect of a military strike in Syria, the SITE terrorism monitoring...

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The American government’s relationship with individual allies overseas – whether in war or peace – is a long and controversial one. 40...

As the US Government debates missile strikes and how best to enforce international law, it’s sometimes hard to remember that there is a...

In March of 2011, one fruit vendor’s act of bravery unleashed a wave of revolution across the Arab world. Can yet another fruit vendor...

It was among the ravages of world war that the brain child of John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White came into being. Seventy years...

Often discussed during the past month’s Syrian chemical weapons debate has been the present and altogether fractured state of...

Chilean Armed Forces bomb the Presidential Palace during the 1973 coup. Wikipedia Commons. Creative Commons. The events of September 11th...

Over the past two years, civil war has ravaged Syria. There has been over 100,000 deaths reported by the UN and extensive economic...

Bollywood is known for its supremely choreographed song and dance routines, sickeningly sappy romances, and improbable plot twists....

On the night of July 31st, the lower house of Uruguay’s legislature passed a bill that would legalize the production, distribution and...

In a well-known stream of consciousness on the series premiere of The Newsroom, fictitious news anchor Will McAvoy expounds on everything...

Recent events have not painted a pretty picture of Russian democracy. Rights abuses have become prevalent to the point of cliché, and...

The recent escalation in unjust imprisonments and brutally conservative policy has charged up opponents of the Kremlin. Alexei Navalny, a...

“Libertarian paradise” were words my hedge fund mentor used to describe the city in which we were working on my first day. These are...

#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an...

Natalie Morin, a Canadian woman who settled down in Saudi Arabia in 2009, is trapped inside her own home. Forbidden to visit her family...

A little over a year ago, a viral video took the Internet by storm. In the week following the release of “Kony 2012,” the video had over...

Japan’s nationalism, much like their baseball, exists as a constant reminder of the nation’s rapid passage from a feudal society to a...