By: Emily Fountain “To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.” These words were spoken by Aung San Suu Kyi, known to many simply as “The Lady,” at the [...]
By: Holly Boggs As both sides of the U.S. political spectrum begin to stir over how the government should best protect its people from each other, the citizens of North Korea are stirring over how best to protect themselves from their own government. Reports from the highly isolated and mysterious land on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone depict [...]
By: Michael Ingram April 15th, 2013 brought a new place into the spotlight of the American public conscious – Chechnya. However, this autonomous republic of the Russian Federation has spent the last 20 plus years in the gun sights of the Russian military. While the actions of two young Chechen men reminded Americans of the horrors that terrorist acts on [...]
By: Alex Edquist When JC Penney hired Ron Johnson as CEO in November 2011, he seemed like the ideal candidate for the struggling retail giant. He had been working as Apple’s vice president of retail since 2000 and had overseen the development of the now wildly successful Apple stores. He promised to bring radical change and a turnaround of the [...]
By: Victoria Barker The recent bombings in Boston have stirred up a surge of nationalistic pride and the recognition of the good in humanity that oftentimes brings people together after a shocking tragedy. This is much akin to the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. As I watched the news coverage of the [...]
By: Megan Ernst Sandeela Kanwal immigrated to the United States from Pakistan, escaping the strict social codes placed on women. Or so she thought. Instead, Sandeela’s father murdered her for seeking a divorce from an arranged marriage. Shortly after she arrived in Georgia, her father began pressuring her to marry her first cousin to speed up his immigration process. She [...]
By: Ian Davis The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is commonly regarded as one of the world’s most difficult. Decades of violence, hatred, and unsuccessful diplomacy have failed to bring any tangible steps towards an enduring peace. Last Friday, the Palestinian Authority’s Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned from his post, introducing a myriad of complications amid renewed peace initiatives in the region. A [...]
By: Alex Sileo Beyoncé and Jay-Z have recently been in the spotlight, not for their music, but for their trip to Cuba. The trip has raised ire from many Florida politicians and some have questioned the legality and purpose of such a trip. This anger largely stems from the historically strained relationship between the United States and Cuba, which has [...]
Can the US and China Unite to Meet a North Korean Nuclear Threat? By: Max Wallace As Kim Jong-un persists in his threats to renew armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, an exacerbated international community finds itself increasingly hard-pressed to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. Neither Pyongyang nor Washington seem likely to compromise on its stance regarding a [...]
By: Jacqueline Van De Velde The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugee’s most recent statistics on the Syrian refugee response reported 1,230,822 registered refugees in the region. Another 970,318 people are waiting to be registered. Together that is 2,210,140 registered refugees and asylum-seekers, the equivalent of the combined populations of Rhode Island and Delaware. Escalating violence in the region has only [...]
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