Breaking the Cycle of Street Harassment
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if [...]
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Arizona Mother of Two Deported
Arizona resident Guadalupe “Lupita” Garcia de Rayos made headlines late last week as the possible first person deported under President Trump’s recent [...]
The Global Gag Rule is Back and Bigger Than Ever
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental [...]
New Year, Same World
On the last day of 2016, it was almost 6 in the evening in New York City, 3 pm in Los Angeles, and 11 pm in London. Helsinki and Cape Town had just finished ringing in the [...]
A Solution for the Fake News Issue
The proclaimed false-news epidemic hitting the internet is hardly news at all. From clickbait to satire to tabloids, purposefully-misleading headlines and articles have been [...]
The Philippines’ Lethal War on Drugs
While most of the Western world agonizes over the presidency of Donald Trump (and rightfully so), in southeastern Asia a highly controversial president nicknamed “Trump of [...]
Don’t Forget Gaza
In Arabic, the curse “go to Gaza” is synonymous with “go to hell.” Indeed, The Gaza Strip, with its long history of military conflict and economic difficulty, [...]
Don’t Make Mulan White, Make Mulan Right
After thousands of worried fans signed petitions and took to Twitter with the hashtag #MakeMulanRight to protest Disney’s whitewashing of Mulan’s live-action remake, the [...]
Finland: An Educational Utopia?
The month is October, and already schools around the nation are in full swing. Thousands of American high school students are piling up coursework from their AP classes, [...]
3 months later: Recent Developments in the Stanford Rape Case
Stanford rapist Brock Turner, who made headlines earlier this year when he was sentenced to a mere 6 months for 3 counts of sexual assault (all of which he was found guilty [...]
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