Browsing Category Politics
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The Promise of Magdoos: A Sliver of Hope in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This article is being published in collaboration with Harvard’s Kennedy School Review. A Jordanian woman in the Northeastern city of Mafraq had been nagging her husband for weeks to ...
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The Inaccessibility of the Lives of Others
Nobody has ever catcalled me. God knows I’ve tried: short shorts, no top, the whole caboodle. But however much I’m “asking for it,” it never happens. I can’t ...
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How Donald Trump gets away with saying things other candidates can’t
This is piece is not saying that Donald Trump never means what he says. It's just sayin'... ...
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An Armenian Voice- Zabel Yessayan 0
In the Ruins
"Under a superb, dazzling sun, the devastated city stretches outward like a cemetery without end." Zabel reports on the 1909 massacres in Adana ...
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The Fatwa on Chess
Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, last week put a fatwa on chess in advance of a tournament scheduled to be held in the ...
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Nous Sommes Paris
I love Paris. Walking through the world’s most beautiful streets for the Climate Conference reminded me of why. To me and to so many, Paris represents a romanticized ...
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Reporter’s Notebook: Inside the Brothels of Mumbai
I am seated cross-legged on a brothel floor on a hot April afternoon. The door is ajar. Just beyond it, a disheveled man in a grey pinstriped shirt appears ...
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Ideas
Congo: the Story of One Family’s Endurance
The tragedies in the Congo brought to focus in the most personal, human way ...
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Goodbye Climate Change, Goodbye Global Poverty?
A political agenda for dealing humanely with climate change will have to come from the Global South ...
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Interlude: Yemen
It’s Thursday in Old Sana’a, and the call to prayer has yet to rush anyone home. Our motley tourist troupe – Egyptian, Brazilian, Canadian, American – sits in ...
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An End to Impunity? Protests and Hope for Mexico
MEXICO CITY – I have covered many massacres, witnessed too much bloodshed, so many that the latest killings should not have come as a surprise. But it doesn’t ...
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The Case for Wikipedia
Last weekend as Harvard prepared to take on Yale for Ivy League football bragging rights, a “Yale cites Wikipedia” poster flashed on College GameDay. The implication of this ...