The Indonesian occupation of West Papua has been described as a “neglected genocide”, a crime against humanity being committed on a...

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Water has been labeled the petroleum of the next century and the subject of World War III by Goldman Sachs and Newsweek respectively....

Longtime mayors can often become outsized personalities and pop culture figures within the cities they serve. Former Providence mayor...

The declaration that “tyranny naturally arises out of democracy” is the famous, anti-democratic thesis of Plato’s Republic. While the...

Brazil’s Bolsa Família has dutifully served as the flagship of Brazilian social welfare since its christening in 2003. The conditional...

Misunderstandings and failures of communication have long plagued social activism and its subsequent role in political discourse....

To many Americans, it might have felt as if the world ground to a halt after the 2016 elections. A constant bombardment of breaking news...

Though the presidential election grabbed most of the headlines, Donald Trump wasn’t the only big winner on November 8th – marijuana...

On October 18th, 2016, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, held a meeting with over 40 interfaith leaders to discuss new...

Almost everyone today can remember the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course of a very short time, over $10 trillion in assets were...

A mighty shock to our electoral system, November 8, 2016 will likely live on in infamy. Yet even before the election, 2016 had long...

In the aftermath of the recent, logic-defying presidential election, many commentators sought to rationalize one of the most surprising...

What happens in an election between a leftist academic economist and a far-right, anti-immigrant populist? Austria just answered this...

Photo Credit: Nina Subin Ron Chernow is a best-selling author and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his biography of George...

Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist, best known for her novels Gilead and Housekeeping as well as her...

Ambassador Pradeep Kumar Kapur has represented India in Tanzania, France, Nepal, Cambodia, and Chile since beginning his career in the...

Leslie Lewin is the Executive Director of Seeds of Peace, a leadership development program founded in 1993 committed to developing mutual...

Dr. Rui Maria de Araújo is the prime minister of Timor-Leste, a position he has held since 2015. A physician by training, he served as...

Cynthia Enloe is a feminist international relations scholar in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at...