Darfur: Will the West Ever Care?
When on October 30th, 2014, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s vicious government forces mercilessly raped 221 women and girls over 36 hours, the residents of Tabit stood helpless. The small town of...
View ArticleSectarian Strife in Yemen
February 10th, the U.S. Department of State announced a formal withdrawal from its embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, in response to mounting Houthi power in the capital. This departure marks a new political...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Rulers
Over one and half billion people live in India and Indonesia, two immense nations whose histories have long been intertwined. Last year, in a monumental exercise of democracy, nearly six hundred and...
View ArticleRussia Looks East
In a move that may further isolate Russia in the eyes of the West, Pyongyang and Moscow have formed a new year of friendship alliance that will deepen political and economic ties between the two...
View ArticleContinued Persecution of Christians
“Continued Persecution of Christians” was originally published in the Davis Political Review on April 6, 2015. On April 2, students at Garissa University College in Kenya started their day as usual;...
View Article#VaiaDilma: President Rousseff’s Trust Deficit
Less than five months after voting President Dilma Rousseff into office last October, the Brazilian people have demanded her impeachment. On March 15th, 2015, approximately one million Brazilians,...
View ArticleInternal And External Schisms
Every day news outlets around the world cover the latest horrors committed by the Islamic State (confusingly abbreviated as IS, ISIS, or even ISIL), and it seems the group’s expansion is unstoppable....
View ArticleTrade and Transparency: The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Elusive Agenda
In his first year in office, President Obama announced one of the primary goals of his international trade policy, U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement between a...
View ArticleF!
The Feminist Initiative literally blazed onto the political scene and stamped its name on international headlines in 2010, when party leader Gudrun Schyman burned 100,000 Swedish krona on a barbecue...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of the World Cup
After Qatar won its bid to host the 2022 World Cup, it began preparations to host one of the most popular sporting events in the world. Through huge construction projects and infrastructure...
View ArticleLessons from the School of Trumpian Politics along the Venezuelan-Colombian...
Xenophobic ideology is not new to politics. It is, however, relatively new to Venezuela, which has been one of the more
View ArticleTrapped in Tradition’s Prison: Why India is Not Ready to Criminalize Marital...
Jyoti Singh was brutally gang raped on December 16, 2012. The assault against this 23-year-old New Delhi resident suddenly put
View ArticleCompassion from Parliament to the Rural Health Clinic
In modern industrialized societies, women continue to encounter stigma and stonewalling when they seek out information about family planning and
View ArticleThe Waning Hermit Kingdom (Part I): A Faltering Kim-Regime
When tensions rose along the Korean Peninsula this past August, it was not military provocation, but South Korean speakers blaring
View ArticleIraqi National Reconciliation
Iraqi army officers made two attempts on the life of the country’s prime minister, Haider Al-Abadi, before being thwarted by
View ArticleThe Failure of Saudi Intervention in Yemen
Saudi Arabia must learn from months of military failures and take a diplomatic path. The last three months have seen
View ArticleCyberwar with China
The U.S. has been hacked on over 700 occasions in just five years on fronts ranging from corporate to private
View ArticleBreaking the Chains of Brazilian Slavery
In 2010, João Luis do Nascimento was considered a modern day slave. By any standard, the 59-year-old father of eight’s
View ArticleRequiem for a Nascent Democracy: Burundi
From the ruins of a twelve-year civil war, Burundi openly embraced multi-party democracy in 2005 to a great deal of
View ArticlePutin’s New Plaything
Vladimir Putin is like a cat. People don’t know what he’s thinking, and the fact that he is unpredictable makes
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