Greenland is an island mired in inconsistencies and ironies. It is named after a color, yet its tundra is a bleak white. It ...

Steven Brown has dedicated more than three decades to serving as the executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Prior to his long tenure in Rhode ...

Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and ...

While Tibet may be widely recognized on the global stage, “Xizang” remains largely unknown—to China’s advantage.The name “Tibet” is often mentioned in calls against human rights abuses and depictions ...

Lebanon’s proximity to conflicts in Syria and Israel helped ignite its civil war. Following the disputes between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1967 to 1970, Lebanon ...

The Indian state’s manipulation of social media platforms was also particularly evident during the height of the 2020-2021 Indian Farmers’ Protests.The backlash began when the BJP, in an attempt to ...

In 20th century-Mexico, similar sentiments spread in light of education reforms. Many politicians of the early Republic held deep prejudices against the use of Indigenous languages and pushed a wave ...

US Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is Michigan’s newly elected junior senator. After serving three successive terms representing Michigan’s 7th and 8th Congressional districts, she outperformed Kamala ...

The shift to the Latin script was arguably a pragmatic decision—aligning Azerbaijan with other Turkic nations that had adopted the Latin alphabet (such as Turkish, Uzbek, and Turkmen, with ongoing ...

On July 31, 2024, Ismail al-Ghoul, one of Al Jazeera’s most prolific wartime journalists, was killed in a drone strike while bearing the unmistakable press insignia. Months before, in the northern ...

Perhaps policies that seek to change the significance of tobacco in national culture need to be implemented. This was the approach (almost) taken by New Zealand in 2022, when lawmakers approved a ...

Dr. Faraz Harsini is the founder and CEO of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), a nonprofit organization working with students to promote animal rights and plant-based diets on college ...