Australia has long struggled with its own institutional xenophobia. From its very beginnings with the infamous “White Australia” policy, the nation has been shaped by racist policies that almost...
Apparently the 80s are back in vogue, again. With a Tory government sitting in Parliament--or rather, holidaying in Tuscany as David Cameron was--rioting is again occurring on the streets of London....
Recently, there was an international storm around Storm, a Canadian child whose parents have declined to divulge their sex. This followed a similar story from Sweden in a 2009 with a child named...
New Yorkers who had been following the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case got a nasty shock this Saturday. In my case, it was broken to me gently. While I was picking up a soda in my local bodega, a...
While over the weekend New York's GLBT community celebrated its recent gay marriage bill, ten thousand miles to the south a new marriage fight is only just beginning. Gay marriage has long been a...
During the 1990s, Ireland emerged from the oppressive theocracy of the Catholic Church. The progress began a decade earlier but with the Celtic Tiger and throwing off of shivering prayers, there was...
Governments throughout the Middle East are responding to pro-democracy protests with brutal crackdowns. Even in Egypt, so recently the site of so much public euphoria and jubilation, the military...
June 5, 2011 marked the forty-fourth anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel annexed the West Bank and Gaza strip. Palestinians commemorate the day as Yawm an-Naksa, their “Day of...
The infamous Soviet labor camps are described by one word - GULag - an acronym for Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies. Gulag is one of those words which everyone knows and...
On 18 May 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to to publicly encourage a Palestinian/Israeli accord based on the 1967 borders. Not only that, but he did so in...
