This week has brought a halt to a human rights inquiry concerning the detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, one of the off-shore facilities in which asylum seekers to Australia are...
Observant Muslimah Samah Aidah, a high school student in Colorado, wears her hijab or head covering as a component of her religious faith wherever she goes in public, like many other Muslim women....
Wasting no time – and equally wasting no opportunity when it came to official spectacle – Russia has gone ahead and annexed Crimea and Sevastopol. The trumpets blared, a speech clearly meant to...
Last week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation highlighted the circumstances of Western Australia resident Rosie Anne Fulton, who has been incarcerated without being convicted of a crime or...
Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleeza Rice, and the Girl Scouts have joined together in a campaign to ‘ban bossy,’ and they’ve been joined by a growing number of other high-powered women and women’s...
The longlist for the second Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing was announced a couple of weeks ago, and it’s a rather interesting selection, featuring only 5 novels alongside a short...
What are these “Unstable Elements” and why are they lurking in Belarus? Are they housed in nuclear warheads misappropriated after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Is there a race against time to...
As the legalization of Marijuana grows, the government of the United States will continue to face unanswered questions pertaining to many relevant issues. An important matter that requires an urgent...
Following recent bloodshed, the ouster of President Yanukovych, and new elections set for May, Ukraine is at a crossroads. It will probably remain there for some time, inspiring many overwrought...
If Arizona legislators have their way, business owners will soon be able to deny services to people on the grounds that they’re wearing mixed fibers—a Biblical no-no—along with others who...
