It’s a truism, perhaps, to claim that sport functions as a release valve for social and economic pressures—but the Vancouver street riots that followed the conclusion of the Stanley Cup finals,...
The last few years have been a tumultuous time in Greek politics, especially after the debt “crisis” of 2010 and the subsequent EU/IMF bailout. Protests and riots on the streets of Athens have...
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...
There is, perhaps, no politician more poetic than Sarah Palin. Yes, yes, I know: Contain your rage. What I mean by this is that Sarah Palin simply does not think in prose. Not for her, the...
This weekend, Meghan Cox Gurdon opined in The Wall Street Journal that the current generation of young adult fiction is 'too dark' for readers; 'So dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and...
Saturday night the news broke that Yemeni president and dictator Ali Abdallah Saleh had been critically injured and flown to Saudi Arabia. Many remembered Tunisian ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben...
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...
Feminism FOR REAL, edited by Jessica Yee, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2011 Mainstream feminist activism and academics, even in the 21st century, have continued to be overly-invested in...
One of the most under-reported factors behind the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt was the rise in food prices in the Middle East over the last year. It’s simple, really: hungry people become...
